telecommuting

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

There are noise cancelling microphones, as well as directional mics. Neil Young liked to record both guitar and vocals simultaneously back in the day, with amps stacked up both on his left and his right. The engineers worked around this by setting up a directional mic directly in front of him to isolate the vocal track. Should work well for lawn mowers, chainsaws, etc too, as long as they're not directly behind you.

You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye
And I'm getting blown away

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard