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the light polluters 2006-03-22 - 8:36 a.m. � 2005 by Elaine Radford the kite house after the removal of the last oak tree that fell during katrina I have probably written about the light polluters before. After Tropical Storm Bill dropped the oak tree on our house, we no longer had the tree blocking the view of the house behind us -- the house in the picture above. That's when we learned that they had the horrible habit of leaving their outdoor lights on all night. Well, even though they've had their new roof for a few months now, they are still rather desultorily doing the rest of the work, and the siding is not yet finished and the obnoxious outdoor lights not yet re-installed. However, there's another twist in the story. The second oak tree, the ones where the kites courted and copulated, came down mainly on their house but also brushed the side of the house next door, which I call the Andrew house, for the probably obvious reason that it got its own tree through the roof during Hurricane Andrew. Their damage in Katrina seemed relatively minor from this angle, but it takes time to get workers for the small jobs, and apparently they only just now finished repairing the damaged side of the house. And now, because of the missing oak tree, we discover that they, too, are in that pernicious category of folks known as the light polluters. Hell, the light on the side of the house is still on, in blazing bright sunlight, at 9 A.M. in the morning. People sometimes. In the news: They have finally started on the difficult job of cutting up and removing the huge, huge Grand Casino Gulfport barge that was destroyed by Katrina. Unfortunately, two workers were somehow trapped and died on the job yesterday. It sounded like they drowned actually, since they were working in six feet of water and got caught in a tight space, but they aren't saying for sure just yet. It just never seems to end. Diaryland Report: Well, I just clicked on a banner I hadn't seen before, and it led me to a suicide threat. That old wheeze. People, if you wanted to get attention by threatening suicide over the internet, maybe you should have started in 1995 when it was still fresh and new. Even the dude that thoughtfully poisoned himself in a cafe in Chile while online so that no one could get to him in time didn't get his fifteen minutes. I only know about him myself because he apparently corresponded with DH a few times about the singularity or DH's novel or some such. So making stupid threats or even carrying them out is not the shortcut to celebrity any more. Give it up. I won't even link to the offending diary in question and reward that kind of thing. Hummingbird Report: It's too bright of a sunny day to keep the curtains open, thanks to missing oak trees and a south-facing office window, but when I peeked out a few minutes ago, I did see one at the back feeder, as well as my tender and affectionate Northern Cardinal pair. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford