Late Corn
I've neglected to say that the family and I have moved into our house. It's beyond what we imagined it to be and we're spending time trying to get everything together and working. I suppose the fact that we've not ordered in food for the past 3 weeks is a testament to how sweet this home is. In the rental, every other day was a regular order from the fantastic Thai Bamboo resturant in West L.A (that's 90049) -- best Thai wonton soup and BBQ sesame beef I have ever tasted. Made the loud nights in the cramped apartment roll by like Bangkok afternoons in the sun with a couple of petite women who didn't understand a lick of English working the kinks out of back (don't get any ideas).
Anyway, the real reason for this post stems from the afternoon in the yard, which I must say is looking very magazine worthy. I setup the workbench and used the leftover siding from the house to construct what will become the third iteration of "My Wife's Cathouse," not in the Vegas way, but in a feline way.
When I first met my wife, she, unfortunately, came with cats. I'm a dog person -- through and through, and besides the fact that I'm allergic to cats, she had two rescue cats who had "adjustment issues" and enjoyed the company of none, especially me -- the sneezing, wheezing lumbering dude who was shacking up with the chick who fed them.
Anyway, in my courting phase, beset with guilt, I built my then girlfriend an 8' x 6' house, complete with shingles, 2 floors and a "kitty cam" (don't go there)( so she could watch them hiss at each other from the comfort of her (our) bedroom) or sit comfortably inside while the 1 friendly cat drooled on her arm.
When we got married and moved to our 2nd house, Brady and I demolished the ski chalet and a made a 4'x2' mini-house between the ficus trees -- no camera, no door, no seat.
The birth of my son sent the kittys into a position similar to divorced step-children, and their third house consisted of a 2' x 3' particle board box on the porch of the Thai delivery apartment, where they were tormented by my son with his crayons and a rather large, Santa Monica-based racoon.
So today I built them a nice house where they can spend the rest of their .75 remaining lives in splendid repose amidst the grass and bark.
But the real reason I'm writing today has to do with the back of my yard, where we had originally transplanted some succulent from a dude in Brentwood who was replacing his yard with a 1/2 basketball court (kudos to Alex for the free plants and fence). I moved the succulent and after trenching the clay-heavy soil, dropped a few seeds of sweet corn in the groove, knowing full well that it's way too late for planting corn, but feeling a tinge of hope that maybe it would take -- and the cats might trade-up to a 3/2 condo off Sunset.
Anyway, the real reason for this post stems from the afternoon in the yard, which I must say is looking very magazine worthy. I setup the workbench and used the leftover siding from the house to construct what will become the third iteration of "My Wife's Cathouse," not in the Vegas way, but in a feline way.
When I first met my wife, she, unfortunately, came with cats. I'm a dog person -- through and through, and besides the fact that I'm allergic to cats, she had two rescue cats who had "adjustment issues" and enjoyed the company of none, especially me -- the sneezing, wheezing lumbering dude who was shacking up with the chick who fed them.
Anyway, in my courting phase, beset with guilt, I built my then girlfriend an 8' x 6' house, complete with shingles, 2 floors and a "kitty cam" (don't go there)( so she could watch them hiss at each other from the comfort of her (our) bedroom) or sit comfortably inside while the 1 friendly cat drooled on her arm.
When we got married and moved to our 2nd house, Brady and I demolished the ski chalet and a made a 4'x2' mini-house between the ficus trees -- no camera, no door, no seat.
The birth of my son sent the kittys into a position similar to divorced step-children, and their third house consisted of a 2' x 3' particle board box on the porch of the Thai delivery apartment, where they were tormented by my son with his crayons and a rather large, Santa Monica-based racoon.
So today I built them a nice house where they can spend the rest of their .75 remaining lives in splendid repose amidst the grass and bark.
But the real reason I'm writing today has to do with the back of my yard, where we had originally transplanted some succulent from a dude in Brentwood who was replacing his yard with a 1/2 basketball court (kudos to Alex for the free plants and fence). I moved the succulent and after trenching the clay-heavy soil, dropped a few seeds of sweet corn in the groove, knowing full well that it's way too late for planting corn, but feeling a tinge of hope that maybe it would take -- and the cats might trade-up to a 3/2 condo off Sunset.
posted by Lou at 6:45 PM
3 Comments:
im sure that condo is going to be much more affordable in about a year....
which will be the perfect time for you to rent it.
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