It’s pretty annoying. There is a guy drinking a beer and yelling at a forklift operator in Ukrainian at 1pm. They are putting cement on EVERYTHING, including my fence that they broke, and my gangway. It’s most likely to strengthen the fence so it doesn’t break so easily, but it could be something less intuitive, like strengthening the gangway.

They hit that fence with a bulldozer last week sometime.They also hit the ground with a bulldozer repeatedly, starting at 7am. That hitting ends at around 11am, and other moving and scraping begins. They are doing a lot of sawing which is weird because the only materials they have are these huge cinder blocks and bags of cement.

I was going to get some coffee earlier, so I took out the recycling but my garbage cans were pretty full with what I can only assume is the used saws and some bags. While I was walking back, I was taking pictures and a guy upstairs in the structure dropped a pile of cement behind me, and when I started freaking out just kept saying “dobryy” or “dobro” which means “good”. I said “no. not dobro! NOT DOBRO AT ALL!” to which the guy replied “dobro”. It really isn’t.

When they first started this, they were jumping some bulldozers over my yard into the open lot, but there was a tree in the way. Scraping bark off the neighboring lot’s tree created a clean pathway directly through my yard in between a Cheetos bag and some other things where they could bring their cement trucks and ground hitting machines.

They have tons of condiments which I can see from inside my house. They are in plain view which is in violation of their permits, which is why their permits are not in plain view. I called the alderman, Manuel Flores, who put a bike rack in front of my office once.