Photo By John Hoff A friend of mine in the Hawthorne Neighborhood was recently putting together a decorative metal bench for her front yard, and after getting the thing assembled her first thought was....how do I chain it to a tree to keep the scrap metal scroungers from making off with it?
The irony is this resident herself will tell you there's never been more peace, more safety, more security in her part of the neighborhood than these last several months. But we're not in urban utopia quite yet. And so, every now and then, we take some extra little steps, the kind of stuff people out in the suburbs don't have to contemplate or calculate.
Like chaining up the lawn ornaments.
(Photo By John Hoff)
when i moved into my house, it came with some "free" wooded lawn chairs. the previous owner told me that he had had his metal lawn chairs stolen, but that the neighbors gave him these wooded chairs, which he was leaving with the house. i think that story kind of sums up both the bad and the good of the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteand, anyway, at least i've never had to worry about rowdy suburban teenagers messing with my gnomes.
stylish bunch.........
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