Outside mounted speakers

It’s not just you. You are not alone. I am retired. My husband is not. I watch the news early in the morning, mostly to see the weather report, then shut the TV off. My husband is the opposite. Five minutes after he gets home, the TV is on. He needs background noise even if he’s not watching. I used to come home from work, when I worked days and he worked nights and he’d be out in the garage with the radio on...I’d come in the house and the TV was also on. No one else was living here at the time. 

In January this year, he had open heart surgery and was off work until the middle of March. After a few weeks, I told him that I wasn’t sure he was ever going to be allowed to retire if I had to listen to TV ALL THE TIME! He has become much more considerate of my low tolerance for constant noise. He wants to retire next year!  He no longer wonders if I’m mad at him if I wonder off to my sewing machine or get out my iPad while he watches television...40+ years of marriage...you kind of get used to each other’s quirks. I can survive a few hours of his background noise and he understands I just need some silence sometimes.

The good thing is he agrees that we listen to the radio while driving, but not while camping. Once in a while we will throw a movie in the DVD player, but not often when camping. If in a busy campground, we can tolerate other people’s noise and just hope they will observe quiet time rules, but like others have mentioned, we choose remote, primitive camping over all the amenities more often then not. I would much rather hear the sound of a mountain stream rushing by then someone else’s choice of entertainment.

Now if that darned yard light the neighbors installed after moving to the country from the city would just burn out permanently! It wouldn’t be bad but it’s the second light they have! Apparently listening to the coyotes scared them.  I have resisted my strong desire to shoot it out for several years now...