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Aug. 3rd, 2020 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
choco_froshRight, it's been a week, and I never posted about M's birthday. Crud, Well, while I'm waiting for the Yummy Bars to cool down enough to frost...
I can't remember most of the details of M's birthday. (I just asked E., who doesn't remember either.) In her case, that's because this was M's Official Birthday, in the same style as Queen Elizabeth II, and she also helped celebrate a couple of other times this year (hiking in NH, lemon meringue pie with M's family, socially-distanced or possibly zoomed occasion with friends. And I don't remember because that day I was mostly focused on having just driven P. to Canada, and was now trying to put in a full day at the office... So I think we had fish, or something, and she baked herself a cherry pie, because she's one of those people who will always go for pie, given the option. Possibly we sang?
The (in some ways) bigger news of that day was that it was the day when the landlord next door started putting up The Fence.
Our house's driveway, you see, abuts directly on our next door neighbor's driveway; both lead to a space at the back where the actual cars get parked.* So what we - AND the people in the apartments next door - used to do was to use each others' driveways as maneuvering space, sticking the back (or front) end of your car into what was technically the other driveway in order to get turned around.
For some bloody reason, however, the landlord of the house next door has evidently decided that their property Must Be Kept Separate, and is putting up a fence to delimit it. So far, it's just some metal posts, but chainlink or something is clearly going to follow, and in any case, there's now a post in the way when you try to back up. So using the driveway has now become a very tricky thing.
* At one point, what we were actually doing was sticking, like, two cars back there and having E. and the landlord park in the actual driveway, and then we had to stop doing that because of BS Belmont town ordinances, and now physically CAN'T do because of the fence.
I can't remember most of the details of M's birthday. (I just asked E., who doesn't remember either.) In her case, that's because this was M's Official Birthday, in the same style as Queen Elizabeth II, and she also helped celebrate a couple of other times this year (hiking in NH, lemon meringue pie with M's family, socially-distanced or possibly zoomed occasion with friends. And I don't remember because that day I was mostly focused on having just driven P. to Canada, and was now trying to put in a full day at the office... So I think we had fish, or something, and she baked herself a cherry pie, because she's one of those people who will always go for pie, given the option. Possibly we sang?
The (in some ways) bigger news of that day was that it was the day when the landlord next door started putting up The Fence.
Our house's driveway, you see, abuts directly on our next door neighbor's driveway; both lead to a space at the back where the actual cars get parked.* So what we - AND the people in the apartments next door - used to do was to use each others' driveways as maneuvering space, sticking the back (or front) end of your car into what was technically the other driveway in order to get turned around.
For some bloody reason, however, the landlord of the house next door has evidently decided that their property Must Be Kept Separate, and is putting up a fence to delimit it. So far, it's just some metal posts, but chainlink or something is clearly going to follow, and in any case, there's now a post in the way when you try to back up. So using the driveway has now become a very tricky thing.
* At one point, what we were actually doing was sticking, like, two cars back there and having E. and the landlord park in the actual driveway, and then we had to stop doing that because of BS Belmont town ordinances, and now physically CAN'T do because of the fence.
