December 13, 2025 Issue, Page 5 of 12

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2025 • 5 Sensor Light Illuminates More Than One Problem DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have DEAR BRIGHT GUY: I do have tickets to our favorite band, but the be out the money, and since you are lived in a country home for the past DEAR ABBY one. Explain to these new neigh- concert is on a night I’m supposed the one altering your agreed-upon 25 years. When we moved here, bors that your security light was to be with the kids. arrangement, you SHOULD reim- our only neighbors were wild tur- raccoons. Now this couple is com- installed to discourage trespassers I don’t have any friends or family plaining that because their house burse him. What the two of you keys, deer and raccoons. Behind and wild animals. Then suggest around to babysit the children, so is so close to my property line and need to work out in the future is our house were 20 acres of woods, they install blackout curtains or I asked my boyfriend if he would which extended into a cornfield. the trees (which acted as a privacy shutters in their bedroom windows take the night off so that I can go some form of plan so your children We were isolated and loved it. barrier) are gone, my security light to prevent unwanted light from to this concert. He told me the only will be taken care of in the (hope- Since then, a housing develop- of 25 years is shining into their seeping in. If that doesn’t solve the way he would do that is if I reim- fully unlikely) event that something ment has slowly been built around bedroom windows and disturbing problem, and there is a governing burse him for his missed wages (ap- should happen to both of you at the us. Last fall, a couple built a house them. They want me to get rid of it. body for your growing neighbor- proximately $300). Do you think same time. behind us. Their rear deck is with- Of course, my attitude is that we hood, ask that the matter be medi- it’s fair to charge me to watch his in 20 feet of our property line. The and that light have been here for ated. own children? -- CONFUSED IN Dear Abby is written by Abigail back of their house has large bed- 25 years. They saw our house and NEW HAMPSHIRE Van Buren, also known as Jeanne room windows. They cut down all property lines before they chose DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and DEAR CONFUSED: Should you to build there and remove all their Phillips, and was founded by her of the beautiful, mature trees from I have two children and work oppo- reimburse your boyfriend for the their lot. trees. I am not inclined to accom- site evening shifts so that one of us wages he will miss if he takes off mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact I have always had a dusk-to-dawn modate them, but I’m open to is home with the kids at all times. work so you can attend that con- Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com sensor light at the rear of my house suggestions from you. -- BRIGHT Recently, my best friend from high cert? If his employer doesn’t pro- or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA for security reasons and to dissuade GUY IN OHIO school surprised me with concert vide for personal time off, he will 90069. CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield