They finished our area (one set of pipes) for now... until more next week...some manhole stuff. Then comes the repaving..which will smell bad.

The dust is a problem because they left sand everywhere. So far it is not windy. The sand is very fine stuff.... like powder. Messy...

The biggest issue is where to park our cars. We have put them behind our house on the highway on the grass (illegally--but the police promise to not ticket us).
and getting in and out there is pretty scary.... hubby doesn't mind, but I do.
At night he brings them around and park in front again. (I am afraid they will be stolen where we are forced to put them at night. (we live on a high hill...it is all hard to explain.)

The lingering anxiety is hard to describe...I didn't realize it was bothering me.
But I am having trouble sleeping. The one neighbor only lives in her house occasionally...they fixed it up and are trying to sell it...now for 4 years..but no one is willing to buy it--all the stairs, etc. So she did leave and is living where she usually lives. The others have a back entrance which we do not.
The not knowing when the water is going off, is very inconvenient, even tho we have now saved water. You have to bathe like at 2am, to be sure!

Oreo still does not like it... but at least she is not trembling like the first day.