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Speaking of birds, a while back we were discussing pigeons and I said that I noticed I’ve never seen any in my yard or the adjacent ones. Now I know why.
I was sitting on the deck and a starling flew into the neighbors yard and from high atop a 5 storey peak, down comes the mockingbird making a bee line right for him and drove him off.
The mockingbirds perch at three different locations where they can see the yards…always VERY high. They seem not to bother the sparrows but when anything bigger comes along they go right for it and drive it out.
speaking of marraige, Mrs. D has this humminbird fixation, ever since we saw a bunch at Elk Lake Lodge.
She wants to buy a hummingbird feeder for the yard. I’m like, are you nuts? Hummingbirds in Brooklyn?
SO she wages her own stealth warefare against me and plants some honeysuckles, which apparently attract hummingbirds.
I’ll be damned if we weren’t sitting in the yard the other night when I said, shit, look at that dragonfly! But it wasn’t, it was a real live hummingbird! Maybe they come from the Greenwood Cemetary, which we’re only a coupla blocks from.
Needless to say, the hummingbird feeder has arrived in my shop today.
snappy, I think the analysis btw house vs. condo is too complicated to make as there are too many variables.
in bensons’s case, he argues that in a new construction condo he won’t need major repairs for a while. You would think that is the case, but many new condos are the victims of shoddy construction practices, which may not be immediately evident. (not saying that’s the case in his complex). In the case of the coop I lived in, which is only a few blocks away, a 1980s conversion, required a million dollars in repair, 400k of which was wrested from the sponsor in a lawsuit.
In the case of my home, which is not a brownstone, I did an almost complete gut job, so I have new electric, new plumbing, new HVAC, etc. We’re in the middle of spending another 10k on a door, skylite, roof hatch, and so on, but we’ve already been here three years. And I will probably need a new roof sooner rather than later. Other than that, I can probably expect to spend very little over the next ten years except for improvements that would be optional, not needed (a garden, for example).
Speaking of birds, a while back we were discussing pigeons and I said that I noticed I’ve never seen any in my yard or the adjacent ones. Now I know why.
I was sitting on the deck and a starling flew into the neighbors yard and from high atop a 5 storey peak, down comes the mockingbird making a bee line right for him and drove him off.
The mockingbirds perch at three different locations where they can see the yards…always VERY high. They seem not to bother the sparrows but when anything bigger comes along they go right for it and drive it out.
Guess I should feel honored, then, not to have been invited! 🙂
denton, I wouldn’t have believed it either.
I think they’re actually ugly little things but don’t tell her I said that.
denton, I’ve seen hummingbirds on my deck, and in my old backyard, for sure.
“frownstoner.com”
PS, I think it’s by invitation only. What is apparently very choosy about his asshats. ; )
speaking of marraige, Mrs. D has this humminbird fixation, ever since we saw a bunch at Elk Lake Lodge.
She wants to buy a hummingbird feeder for the yard. I’m like, are you nuts? Hummingbirds in Brooklyn?
SO she wages her own stealth warefare against me and plants some honeysuckles, which apparently attract hummingbirds.
I’ll be damned if we weren’t sitting in the yard the other night when I said, shit, look at that dragonfly! But it wasn’t, it was a real live hummingbird! Maybe they come from the Greenwood Cemetary, which we’re only a coupla blocks from.
Needless to say, the hummingbird feeder has arrived in my shop today.
“cobble, go outside now and stare directly into the sun.”
DIBS, go play in traffic. : P
snappy, I think the analysis btw house vs. condo is too complicated to make as there are too many variables.
in bensons’s case, he argues that in a new construction condo he won’t need major repairs for a while. You would think that is the case, but many new condos are the victims of shoddy construction practices, which may not be immediately evident. (not saying that’s the case in his complex). In the case of the coop I lived in, which is only a few blocks away, a 1980s conversion, required a million dollars in repair, 400k of which was wrested from the sponsor in a lawsuit.
In the case of my home, which is not a brownstone, I did an almost complete gut job, so I have new electric, new plumbing, new HVAC, etc. We’re in the middle of spending another 10k on a door, skylite, roof hatch, and so on, but we’ve already been here three years. And I will probably need a new roof sooner rather than later. Other than that, I can probably expect to spend very little over the next ten years except for improvements that would be optional, not needed (a garden, for example).
wee-wee?! i have *at least* a pee-pee, if not a noodle.