Jean Eng Blog

I had a lot of energy earlier and went on 2 walks along with working out on the airclimber. Overall, I did almost 9 miles today with 4.5 miles being the long afternoon walk on a trail.

I kept on seeing all these clover patches along the sides of the trail and really had it set in my mind that I’d like to find a 4 leaf clover. When I was a kid, I used to find them all the time, they just seem to pop out at me when I look down.

Well today was no different. Toward the end of my walk, I passed by a clover patch and there it was, staring back at me with its 4 petals!

“ooh!! 4 leaf clover!!”

I picked it up and took it home with me. By the time I got it home, it was starting to wilt. It’s not a totally perfect looking clover since some bugs decided it was good eating!

Here’s a pic of the 4 leaf clover I found earlier:

Maybe the clover will bring me some luck! I could definitely use it…

Earlier tonight my sister in law called me to ask about the recommended N95 filtration masks or respirators. Apparently she had gone out shopping with the kids today and couldn’t find any at the retail stores they visited.

I hadn’t been following this swine flu thing as I don’t watch the news. She filled me in on a little bit of what’s happening around this area and 3 of the schools in Maryland has been closed temporarily for fear of the virus. Being she’s got 3 kids in school, there’s concern for their health and safety so she wanted to at least have the masks on hand just in case they need it.

I looked online and was blown away by how “out of stock” most of the online retailers are to carrying the N95 respirators. Many of the websites I found had a statement about the overwhelming demand and depleted supply with shipment time being 3-5 weeks. I guess the manufacturers can’t pump them out fast enough. I’m sure the makers of these respirators’ stock has gone up due to this scare.

Some stores are upping their price on what little supply they do have but surprisingly, I found that Restockit actually are having a sale on the items related to fighting this swine flu! My sister in law decided to order the 3M Nexcare earloop filtration mask with the free shipping. There’s a note on their site stating it would take 5-10 days to ship out due to the demand but that’s a lot quicker than some sites that say weeks!!

I think these ones will fit the kids better since the round dust mask respirators tend to be a bit too big for their faces. Plus I think earloop soft masks are a bit more comfortable to wear which is always good for kids. They also sell hand sanitizers on their site. My sister in law said some stores she went to was out of stock on those too. I guess everyone is stocking up just in case.

I think I may order some of the 3M Nexcare Earloop Masks myself. They would be more comfortable to wear when I’m weed whacking…plus I can always pretend like I’m a doctor! :laughing:

It’s true, I live next to the most annoy small dogs in the world…maybe they are just the most annoying neighbors ever! No one in my house can go outside in the backyard without being harassed by the loud, high pitched barking of our neighbor’s now 5 small dogs.

They used to have 3 of those taco bell dogs, Chihuahuas and they were super annoying with their constant barking at the fence. At times they would let them run around outside in the front yard off leash and they would run out into our yard barking at me getting into my car.

In the rare instance my neighbor would walk his litter of terrors, he would allow them to pee and poop anywhere they want without cleaning it up. We don’t own dogs and should not have to deal with dog poop in our yard.

They also have annoying cats that they let out to roam loose. We have flower beds and a huge vegetable garden in our yard and everyday we go outside to find the neighbor’s cat has dug up small plants and have pooped and peed in our garden and flower beds….which destroys all our hard work.

These neighbors are the most disrespectful people I’ve ever encountered. If you own pets, you should be responsible for them and not let them continuously be a public nuisance to the people you live near. I seriously doubt we are the only neighbor’s their pets have inconvenience since their dogs bark at anything and everything.

Sometime last year, we noticed that one of the barky dogs were gone, maybe it died or something, who the hell knows. But the two dogs were just as bad as three with their barking.

A few weeks ago, it seems that they decided to get more dogs. So now, instead of the 2 Chihuahuas, they now have 3 Dachshunds for a total of 5 ANNOYING YAPPY DOGS ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH!!!!!!

I don’t know what the @#$%! they are thinking. It doesn’t seem like they are responsible enough to properly train their dogs as it was, why the hell would they take on more and more animals??

I went outside in the backyard to do something in the yard briefly and was greeted by a pack of barking dogs at the fence. The neighbors are home, there is always someone there and they just let their dogs bark for a long time. Last week I was outside weed whacking and the dogs barked the entire time I was outside which was over an hour!

Our backyard could be really relaxing and peaceful, especially when the garden is in full bloom, it’s gorgeous! But we can’t enjoy it without the addition of the ear piercing barking dogs.

Today I just could not take it, I can’t go outside for a little while to get something without the dogs barking up a storm. After about 5 minutes of barking, I heard the neighbor come to the door to call the dogs but when they didn’t go to him, he just left it alone. How #$@! LAME!!! After 3 more minutes of barking, I just lost it, I started screaming and yelling at them to shut the hell up. Which I know probably doesn’t help and only excite the dogs more but I just couldn’t take it anymore. I was just totally out of my mind at that point, if I had a bat, I would have banged on the fence making a ton of ruckus just to scare the dogs…ugh!!! Would have let out some of my frustrations too and maybe freak the neighbors out that I’m unstable or something.

I like animals and wouldn’t want to harm them but man, they stress me out and annoy the hell out of me. It’s the fault of the pet owners that don’t train their dogs properly that is to blame for all this irritation.

I am seriously contemplating on finding ways to annoy them, I wonder if a silent dog whistle would annoy the dogs at all times of the day regardless of when I’m outside or not. I could stand at my backdoor on the inside and just blow on the whistle and get the dogs going with their barking. Maybe if enough people actually complain to them besides me, they would take this matter more seriously and train their dogs or give them more exercise.

Next time, I’m going to video tape their continuous barking to keep as documentation. I know for my county there, there is a pet nuisance law stated at the animal control site, it says I need documentation, etc.

If every time my neighbors went outside, I started blasting loud music, they wouldn’t like it either. ugh, I wish they would move. They keep on putting their house up for sale in the past two years but then month or so later, they remove the sign. I don’t think anyone wants buy that house. It’s probably all junked up like their backyard is. The day they put the for sale sign up, I remember me and my brother started cheering and hi-fiving each other in celebration. So sad they never moved….

I’m thinking about buying those stop dog barking audio devices but they seem to get mixed reviews. UGH!!!!!