REALLY LOCAL NEWS
- Wild pig invades property, ravages nothing in particular: “Just for fun of it”
- Leaves filling culvert and accumulating on roadside await attention
- Hornets nearly the size of your hand invade carpenter bee nest in front eave; aftermath recalls Punic Wars
- Crow stops using chestnut tree outside upstairs bedroom window for nationwide dawn announcements
- Garden growing feral, organizing; home committee shorthanded, indecisive
- Deer enjoys nightly snack of beautiful pumpkin leaves growing in all directions from compost pit outside garden fence; “succulent blossoms a special treat”
- Fall of deceased oak awaited, chestnut going piece by piece
- Green wheelbarrow with yellow handles full of broken garden pots; mental committee allegedly forming
- Cherry limb that should have been trimmed a long time ago now popular woodpecker resort
- Uncleaned rain gutter bitches and moans even in light rain
- Brady hears loudest thunder in his life, in clear midday, right outside house; suspects unilateral attempt at stimulus
- Mushroom logs confused by weather have no idea where they are
- Anonymous midsized bird begins enjoying Brady cucumbers
- Water pressure falls unexpectedly one morning for no reason
- Generous village neighbor leaves some of her surplus sweet onions beside our door
- Local farmers visit upmountain paddies now and then
- All calm as rice grows
What a special local news treat. So creative and I got a clear image on every single line.
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, Tabor, to keep you up to date. Lots going on here.
ReplyDelete"Brady hears loudest thunder in his life, in clear midday, right outside house; suspects unilateral attempt at stimulus."
ReplyDeleteCould've been a dragon, maybe.
(in my world, any flock of starlings in that whirling dance that casts a shadow upon the earth becomes a 'luck dragon.' How else would we imagine they would manifest? Every life needs a bit of whimsy.)
Jenn