Prairie Landing
Saturday, May 26, 2007
What happens in the alley, stays in the alley
Like the desert in a Discovery Channel program, the alley behind our house looks bleak and uninviting, but is actually teeming with life. When it snows you can see the tracks of 4 or 5 different creatures. Rats predominate but there are also rabbits, squirrels, pigeons, cats and raccoons. This year there's been a bumper crop of bunnies, which the Trib explained is due to West Nile Virus.
We also have a regular troop of dumpster divers, who range from enterprising to visibly mentally ill. And then there are the graffiti artists. We learned that the city has a crew of "Graffiti Blasters" when some graffiti showed up on the garage door one morning and by afternoon it had been covered up by some hastily swiped, mismatched paint.
Apparently the city won't take care of privately owned dumpsters, though. This one has been around for a few weeks at least:
And I don't know how to explain this fist-sized ball of crud on the garage door:
We also have a regular troop of dumpster divers, who range from enterprising to visibly mentally ill. And then there are the graffiti artists. We learned that the city has a crew of "Graffiti Blasters" when some graffiti showed up on the garage door one morning and by afternoon it had been covered up by some hastily swiped, mismatched paint.
Apparently the city won't take care of privately owned dumpsters, though. This one has been around for a few weeks at least:
And I don't know how to explain this fist-sized ball of crud on the garage door:
