Is that a really big bug?

A high pitched whine starts up outside our apartment.

It goes on and on.

It goes on and on during the day. For many days.

It does stop at about 4pm each day. But it's been happening for a couple of weeks now.

So is there a nest of really big bugs out there? Are we facing an invasion of giant wasps? Is one of these apartment buildings really a giant wasps' nest? Or is it a bunch of 2-storey tall hummingbirds at a really big bird feeder? Where do they find enough food? Do we have monster flowers growing out there too?

Investigations into this bug invasion have resulted in a discovery of... wait for it... construction. Yes, more construction. After 3 years of construction workers going up and down the outside of our apartment building... they've now started on our neighbours' building. It's a plague of construction, and the next building over has caught the disease. It too is a 30+ storey apartment building, a bit older than this one, with a lot of windows. They are removing and replacing the bits around the outsides of the windows. All of the windows.

It's not nearly as bad as having our own building vibrating with the grinding, or as noisy as having the construction workers just on the other side of a pane of glass, so this is not as bad as the last 3 years of construction that we had to live through.

But we were just beginning to enjoy the relative quiet of just a bit of car and pedestrian traffic outside.

It really is a nice place to live, when it's not a construction site. Maybe I'll just think of it as big bugs. I could actually get a picture of a humming bird with my camera if the humming bird was 2 storeys tall...