To put it another way, who in the HELL throws broken glass, metal pull tabs (NOT pop tops, mind you!), broken dishes, et all, into their OWN YARD?!
The recent howling rainstorms and resulting standing floods managed to absolutely kill every blade of grass in our back yard.
Last year:
After the flood! 5 inches of standing water, which stayed for 4 days:
After the drainage channels, which did NOTHING to improve the looks of the yard:
The
bushes and trees are still alive thank Heavens, so there is still SOME
greenery. During the floods we had to go out into the rain and dig
ditches to channel the water away from the buildings and the chicken
coop so the flock wouldn't drown. We came up with lots of weird stuff
such as the broken glass and metal, but also some cool stuff--Cracker
Jack prizes (intact!), 21 marbles (so far), plastic cars in neato swoopy
'30's designs, and numerous small toys. I already have a Kist soda
bottle (handpainted logo!) and a small glass Bayer aspirin bottle that
my chickens dug up years ago sitting on my kitchen window shelf. We
figure that either the people who lived here used the yard for a trash
heap, there was an incinerator out there (we've found hunks of melted
glass) or, we (ulp) live on an old landfill. We already know that the
previous homeowners liked to butcher their own pigs--they buried the
remains of 14 (that we've found to date) in shallow graves of 6 inches
of earth, wrapped in black plastic trash bags (why???!!). So the
'previous homeowner as land befouling gross polluter' is the front
running theory.
Anyway, since none of the grass grew back and the
back yard looks like Mars, a session with a rototiller to prepare the
way for new sod is in our near future. It promises to be a
frightening/weird/cool/eye-opening/disgusting experience.
I can't wait to see what THAT produces...hmmm, come to think of it, didn't that guy's wife die while they lived here...?
*gulp*
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