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| My side of the Moon | |||||||||||||||||||
| October 30, 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||
| We lived. The pets lived. Not much else did. At least we don't have raw sewage piled up, like our neighbors down in Davie... |
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| Two weeks ago, my house was barely visible from across the street. Our yard was LUSH. We were blessed with mature trees. Six years of effort had transformed our yard from part of the law'n order set to a NWF certified wildlife habitat. Fortunately, the house is still standing. Unfortunately, not much plant life survived other than evil lawn grass and a few stretches of nefarious ficus hedge. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| This was the shade garden. I relocated the bird bath to the central spot, hoping the local fids would spot it. Seems to be working. The stump directly opposite the bird bath used to be the best climbing tree in the neighborhood. Oh, well. It wasn't native anyway. At least it didn't land on any humans when it came down. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| The tree that sheared off near its base, directly in front of the double window front and center, fell into the driveway rather than crushing the house. Yay! The windows and front of the house were previously largely obscured by the butterfly gardens, bromeliads, and gingers. The pale wall on the right, between the porch and garage door, has never been seen by any of us before. It was home to a well-established barbados cherry hedge (yum!), fronted by native ground orchids, pentas, and jasmines that I'd collected over the years. You can see our reconstruction efforts have begun here. I've hung a hummingbird feeder, and moved in a few potted plants to green the wall and walkway up a bit. In a fit of glorious optimism, I've sown sunflowers, blanketflowers, and zinnias along the no-long-shady walkway. It's WEIRD to actually see the house. Jeff and I keep discussing various ways of hding ourselves from street traffic. I think the city would object to the big old wall I keep suggesting. (But, really, you can plant herbs in cinderblock, I swear!) Note the hurricane panels still up on the left side. (See, Paige? I told you we were well protected!) |
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