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The fence has been
installed – and a mighty fine piece of work it is too. We can no longer
see the trash bins outside the apartments next door.
Now we have to hide the fence - so our garden
person is coming today to tell us what we should plant.
The man who owns the apartments next door came to
see me on Friday nite. He plans to build not one – but two – houses on the
microscopic piece of land next door to us.
These would be houses in which Peter Dinklage could
live comfortably – but probably no one else.
We knew this was inevitable because the real estate
agent told us it would never happen. She assured us that no one could ever get
approval to build a house on a piece of land that size.
So we are not surprised –but it will not affect our
privacy because we will have fences, hedges, bushes and trees.
We have two new types of birds. We have seen red-winged blackbirds and
brown-headed cowbirds (brown-headed cowbirds?).
WTF sort of name is that?
Perhaps the person who named it had already done
the pileated woodpecker, the indigo bunting and the golden crested mugwump –
and had simply run out of names. In a similar fashion to the person who named
the wart hog.
On Thursday Cate has to go to Amsterdam for a week
– so the cats and I are already planning what we shall do. It will involve
watching golf and the latest season of Mad Men.
The kitchen cupboards are a priority. I have bought
myself a labeling machine so that – after I identify the various types of white
powder and other ‘stuff’ in unmarked containers - I will be able to give them
names so that when I am looking for plain flour I don’t have to touch, taste
and sniff the contents of half a dozen jars.
Does the cowbird moo-oo-ooo at all? Like my catbird is supposed to sound like a cat... Discovered a couple of new birds myself this week. Perhaps someone will object to the building plans and it will take so long to settle he will sell the land cheaply to you as a nature reserve....
ReplyDeleteThe power of positive thinking Badger.
Cooper and I haven't made it to the time of year where we go outside in the mornings to listen to the birds and neighbors while sitting among the grapevines. I too am looking into labeling just now! I am trying to make vinyl stickers for a customer using my Epson 4900 and Roland cutter.
ReplyDeleteCowbirds are awful, we had one that laid her eggs in some other's birds nest and the cowbird babies took over and kicked out the rightful owner of nest babies, it was a disgrace. And they are ugly.
ReplyDeleteSandy: I have not heard the cowbird but I am sure it does not moo. Let us hope.
ReplyDeleteesb: It won't be long now. You sure are a busy man.
fmcgmccllc: Wow - I did not realize they were like cuckoos. I agree that they are not a good looking bird.