Garden 17 Oct 2005 01:11 pm
birdapalooza
The UW weather station says that it’s 64.4 F, but it feels a few degrees warmer to me. It feels like exactly the sort of warm, damp, breezy October day that is the very best. I’ve turned off the heat and opened up the windows to let the clean fresh air flow through the house. Saw a flicker in the yard for the first time in months. At least two of them, in fact. (I should get some suet cakes.) Plus juncos, sparrows, black-capped chickadees, and a jay. It’s like a party out there at the feeder. I think I hear a couple of finches now. And here come the starlings, crashing the party.
… Well, it was a nice day until the World’s Slowest Gardener arrived across the street with his stinky gas-powered gardening machines. He’s standing around, slack-jawed, dully watching the effects of his leaf blower. It’s amazing how much noise and dust and stench those things can produce. I loathe them.
on 17 Oct 2005 at 6:39 pm 1.naomi said …
LOATHE. I also can’t stand how those people insist upon blowing leaves completely off their property, letting them litter the space of others.
on 17 Oct 2005 at 6:53 pm 2.Cam Sculpin said …
Word. And it’s not as if rakes and brooms aren’t fine and useful implements. A diminutive grandmother with rake and broom can outdo a burly landscaper with a leafblower.
Of course, if the World’s Slowest Gardener used a rake, he’d have to get a little light exercise. Heaven forfend.