Fast Fiction

Had a few blogging.la friends over last night. This necessitated cleaning the deck upstairs, because we haven’t used it yet this season. So I spent the morning working on getting all the leaves off and dusting the furniture and bannister to get rid of that black LA crud.

The unpleasant surpise of the morning was finding that not only did the raccoons still live in the avocado tree, they’ve been using a corner of my roof as a toilet. There’s a huge pile of raccoon crap there. I’m not quite sure what to do with it. If I get rid of it, the raccoons are gonna think that I’m their slave.

The other finding is that a bunch of wasps or yellow jackets (I’m unsure) have started a nest in the umbrella.

I’m not equipped to get rid of it myself, since my allergy is just a little too risky. I’m not keen on using pesticides either, since we eat off that table. I’m sure we’ll figure out what to do eventually.