It’s a question you can’t help but ask when your wife calls you after she’s just walked out the front door to tell you she’s in her car in front of the garage she just pulled out of and when she remotely closed its door she found the disturbing results of vandals who at some …
Christmas comes but once a year, but it seems that afterward it can be a veritable eternity watching discarded Christmas trees decomp by the curbs upon which their irresponsible discard-‘tards dump them. Short of dedicating the waste management resources to pick up directly after this legion of post-holiday idiots, the city of Los Angeles goes …
Susan was in the mood for some Christmas decoration. Candy Cane Lane in Woodland Hills was too far. So I suggeted Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena, but Susan wasn’t up for that trek either so we wound up hopping nto the truck and making a meandering loop beginning with the above house one block over …
At the request of reader Paul to show our backyard vista in the daytime I went out this morning and just before 8:30 a.m. snapped this shot of it from the same vantage point as the ones taken a couple nights ago and seen in my previous post: In the daylight I was very pleasantly …
The owners of the property two doors north of us just unblocked our view from the backyard by cutting down two large trees from their front yard, leaving Sunset Boulevard looking like a runway for any flights of fancy I might wish to take: [Larger sizes here and here]
Could Susan and I have been painted with a more precise brush? In a sidebar to David Zanhiser’s reportedly exhaustive and outstanding piece on gentrification in this week’s L.A. Weekly (I’ve yet to read it) we get pegged on of all things… subtrim: Subtrim.When a newly purchased house gets painted, some exacting buyers go the …