In This House That I Call Home

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Our rental home is on a corner in a rather heavily-walked neighborhood.  We have an elementary school a block away, so that's a big part of the foot traffic.  This is an odd neighborhood - at least in one respect - that it doesn't have sidewalks on all streets.  Some just end after a few blocks.  Some go down but one side of a street.  And there are corners, like ours, that have only one edge of the lot with a sidewalk.  This leaves the angle of the turn, if a pedestrian is turning the corner, up to interpretation, and many people severely cut the corner.

I've mentioned as much before in this forum:  People walk through our yard all day.  And the yard itself is an abomination.  It once had a tree in the middle of it and there's nothing left but an ankle-biting crater.  The forty species of grass, clover, weeds and such compete with each other.  Add the Southern California sun that blasts it all day, every day, and you've got a pretty awful-looking thing.

There's a way to save it, of course, and that's to water it.  It would take a lot of water.  Every day, likely, from the amount of sunshine that bakes it.  And level it.  Fill in that crater and re-sod it.  Lay down the sidewalk along the other edge.  Build a fence around it.  But, y'know, it's a rental.  So I don't really care.  Besides, we have a back yard that people don't walk through.  So we stay back there.


Tonight - The Orbit Room


It's not the Solstice yet, but c'mon out and get some glorious late-evening illuminatio !!  And sure complex hand-crafted bevvies take a little time, but we've got plenty of it.

bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!