Lets start with the photos.
I'm relaxing in a nice porch, uploading pictures. Occasional small stones fly here from about 10 meters away as Mark, our host, is trimming grass from the area next to the street - he doesn't own it, but has to maintain it otherwise on Thursday he'll have to start paying a nice $2500 fine - 2500 every day of violation.
We're relaxing after some shovelling - dykumos molį kasti tai rūpūs miltai, nežinau, kaip juos laidoja, like we say in Lithuania. Mark has to finish a fence as well, obviously if he doesn't all the neighbours get disturbed. Same fine.
It makes me think of all the freedom we have back at home - there's always one crazy lady who takes care of a small garden in front of a block and feeds cats around. If a house doesn't have such a lady - then oh well, not a big deal. But then not many people live in separate houses.
Why do you poor Americans have to trim weeds if it's a desert? Shouldn't you be glad to have something growing in your landscape? Of course yellow is beautiful, but why not to have it natural? Palm trees are not native for Phoenix, perhaps you should trim it too.
Our host Grace told us people desire to keep it very deserty, that's why they also put plastic into the ground - to stop everything from growing. That's how their yards stay clean from plants.
Plants and people belong to different family groups, but I have to mention the law 1070 allowing police in Arizona to check people's passports to see if they're legal - without any reason. Of course they mostly check Mexican people, or anyone with darker skin and strange accent. As quite a lot of white people in Phoenix are racist they're happy with police doing that forgetting that the land used to be Mexican and due to the USA and Mexican governments Mexican people haven't got any other choice for surviving - just to emigrate and try to work and live illegally in the US.
Well, basically that's all I wanted to mention today:)
I'm relaxing in a nice porch, uploading pictures. Occasional small stones fly here from about 10 meters away as Mark, our host, is trimming grass from the area next to the street - he doesn't own it, but has to maintain it otherwise on Thursday he'll have to start paying a nice $2500 fine - 2500 every day of violation.
We're relaxing after some shovelling - dykumos molį kasti tai rūpūs miltai, nežinau, kaip juos laidoja, like we say in Lithuania. Mark has to finish a fence as well, obviously if he doesn't all the neighbours get disturbed. Same fine.
It makes me think of all the freedom we have back at home - there's always one crazy lady who takes care of a small garden in front of a block and feeds cats around. If a house doesn't have such a lady - then oh well, not a big deal. But then not many people live in separate houses.
Why do you poor Americans have to trim weeds if it's a desert? Shouldn't you be glad to have something growing in your landscape? Of course yellow is beautiful, but why not to have it natural? Palm trees are not native for Phoenix, perhaps you should trim it too.
Our host Grace told us people desire to keep it very deserty, that's why they also put plastic into the ground - to stop everything from growing. That's how their yards stay clean from plants.
Plants and people belong to different family groups, but I have to mention the law 1070 allowing police in Arizona to check people's passports to see if they're legal - without any reason. Of course they mostly check Mexican people, or anyone with darker skin and strange accent. As quite a lot of white people in Phoenix are racist they're happy with police doing that forgetting that the land used to be Mexican and due to the USA and Mexican governments Mexican people haven't got any other choice for surviving - just to emigrate and try to work and live illegally in the US.
Well, basically that's all I wanted to mention today:)
>that's all I wanted to mention today:)
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Have you signed your contract with some žiniasklaida in Phoenix?
>yellow is beautiful
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Sounds like you're on the right path, girl!