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Category: environment
Monday’s Community Meeting
Traffic & Safety are highest priority.
Permit/reference number: cp15-059
sjpermits.org/permits/general/permitquery.asp
Weeds r Us!
After the recent rains, weeds & things have started to spring up in our back yard:
We had our pool removed and are planning to start landscaping soon. There was nothing but dirt in our back yard for a while.
Now the weeds are threatening to go to seed, and they need to be pulled up by their roots.
Tokyo Chris
Our friends have a son living in Japan. Skype allows them to maintain continuous contact with him, and report that he is doing fine:
Tokyo is 150 miles from the Fukushima nuclear-power plant damaged in the recent earthquake, but so far no one seems to think that current radiation levels in Tokyo pose much risk to human health.
Cold One
Ice on the car windows; had to scrape off. Uncomfortably-low temperatures in the Bay Area this morning.
Salad Tonight
Our first Early Girl. Notice the next one will probably be Wednesday’s.
What Lurks Below
It was seven or eight years ago when I started noticing a depression on the lawn in our back yard. Jumping up and down on it made me think there might be buried treasure.
I took a shovel and cut into the grass around the edge of the depression when suddenly whoosh! The circle of lawn disappeared. It was a sunny day and all I could see was a dark black hole. I must have turned completely white because all I could do for a while was stand there in shock.
That’s why they call it a “yardstick”, right?
Marleigh wants to know what I’m doing down there.
This deep, brick lined hole was the overflow for an ancient septic system. All the bricks were completely clean, with just one dry nasty pipe poking into it from the side.
One time I surprised some visitors by hiding in our “stink hole” and lighting my face with a flashlight when they peeked into it.
We eventually filled it completely with concrete slurry.
WASP ethic
With the rise of modern capitalism and industrial society, the WASP ethic is that we fulfill our duty to God by diligence and hard work.
On another note, this humble creature is living under our backyard sliding board:
Not to scale (except perhaps in one’s imagination).
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp
Golden Ginko Leaves
On Curtner one sunny afternoon looking east toward the Diablo Range.
Willow Glen, decades in the future
San Jose City Council is already giving away public parkland to private interests. Next step is to eliminate open space requirements so that developers can build higher density. This also has the added benefit (to developers) of making more parkland available for development. Everybody happy?
