Random Musings – April 12, 2017
Woman in the Middle | April 12, 2017Youngest Daughter has a friend who happens to live and work in the Los Angeles area. The friend recently lost her two roommates for various reasons (one was off to medical school!) and had to find a new place to live. She is a college graduate but has one of those jobs that requires a degree but pays poorly. So she had quite a hard time finding a place, finally settling on a room in a house with three young men. It just so happens that the three men have their own production company. However, they must not make much money, if they have to take on a roommate. People struggling to make their dream come true in movies and television. You can’t get much more Los Angeles than that!!!
Another reason I know it is spring here is that the mockingbirds are back. They must have a nest in our backyard yard somewhere, but we don’t know exactly where. They are constantly about, making noise to try and warn us away from the nest or distract us from the nest. They are squawking all the time at us, at Cloud, at our cats looking out the window, and I have to admit I am tired of hearing it.
I miss the crows. Ever since West Nile hit our area, we haven’t had as many crows. This came home to us when a snake was killed by a car right in front of our house last week. Normally, in the days before West Nile, the crows would have dealt with it. But, unfortunately, there wasn’t a single crow siting. Someone with a strong stomach or Animal Control finally removed it. Meanwhile, I miss the crows.
Speaking of birds, since I seem to be on a bit of a bird kick today (when I am not talking about struggling producers in LA) that pair of duck lovebirds that have taken over our back yard are still stubborn cusses. They have made an absolute mess of bird poop all around our pool and are really really hard to scare away. This is obviously not their first rodeo, They know we aren’t going to hurt them. Every time I try to chase them away they go into the pool and just paddle to the side away from where I am standing and yelling and waving my hands. I finally had to resort to spaying them with the hose today. At first that din’t scare then, as they are used to water, after all. But, finally, they got the hint and flew away. I am sure they will be back, if they aren’t already, to poop on the tile some more.
I can’t imagine sharing a house with people,although when I met him Tim was sharing a house with two women but I am a very private person and like my own space and company