Apartment Life #405

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here, and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.

A lot has been happening around my apartment complex this week. Last week we had an inspection with the fire marshal to make sure that the smoke detectors were all working. When he found out that the last owner had the apartment manager put fire extinguishers under the sink, he went and looked at mine and didn't like it being under there and talked to the manager about it while she was in my unit. The maintenance was supposed to check and replace all the smoke detectors, but they didn't and it's been rescheduled for Monday. That's what the notice above says. 

It also says they will be removing all the fire extinguishers from the apartments because the Fire Marshal told them to. She came over to me last week when she saw me outside and told me that the Fire Marshall thinks we're all idiots and if we have Fire Extinguishers in our apartments that we will try to use them and put out the fire ourselves instead of getting out and calling 911. So now they all have to be removed, but what she doesn't know is that I have 2 fire extinguishers of my own that are hidden and they aren't taking those. The fun never ends.

This is the tiny fire extinguisher they are worried about. Say goodbye. 

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Maintenance has been really busy making upgrades to both my complex and the complex right next to mine. I found out that the new owner bought not only this complex but that one too. Maintenance has been installing these lights along the top of all the buildings. I guess the street lights aren't bright enough for them at night. They are spaced about 20 feet apart along the top of the buildings. 

The lights haven't been put in them yet. I'll try and get a picture of how bright they are when they are installed. 

I'm going to have a light near either side of my window, so I might have to invest in better blackout drapes for my window depending on how bright they are. 

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After last week when I told you maintenance was removing 2 of the trees and placing plastic sheeting under the rocks this is what it looked like before they put in new rocks and the plastic. 

This is what it looks like now with the plastic under the rocks and the new rocks placed on top of the plastic. It doesn't look bad, just very plain. 

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Then one day I finally got a picture of this dog. The owners live just around the corner but they let this dog out offleash all the time. I see him around here all the time. He never gets close to me but he says hi to Falcor.

He would run close to Falcor and then run away and come back. He's a fast little guy. I worry he's going to get hit by a car one of these days though.

Then he came over to say hi to Falcor who was happy to say hello to him. 

The high this week was 63F/17C

The low this week was 38F/3C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.