Food chain in progress

latetoschool
Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:00:19 +0000

Idmom, that reminds me of one of my dearest friends in Arlington - I stay in her guest bedroom sometimes when I’m in DC - anyway, her cat - the one who made the rounds of all the Ivy league schools - was attacked over and over by mockingbirds one year. They’d nested in the backyard, decided the cat was a threat, and they would swoop down out of the tree and attack the poor cat…we felt very sorry for the cat but we could think of no way protect him from the attacks. And he’s a rather young, large male cat too - surprising that the birds would attack what had to be clear to them was a
larger, stronger animal - we were amazed.

Coureur, I don’t see anything in my lease agreement that permits new construction or adding on a garage, therefore your excellent suggestion will not work. But, even at the house I own in our primary city, I don’t use the garage any more. Got out of the habit of using it after two years of successive hurricanes - power outages lasting for weeks at a time, the manual process to open the garage got old. Plus, when I bought my new car, I wanted to show it off, so parked outside my garage all of the Christmas season. Maybe I should go home, live in my house until mating season is over or something.

I think I’m going to try draping hand towels over the mirrors, until I get a car cover. That won’t look as goofy as shower caps, plus, I’ll buy another mirror to place elsewhere.