Last year, a pair of mallards nested here on Twenty Seventh Street. Well, they’re back. For the past week, the female has been sitting in the tree and the male has been guarding from the sidewalk, or sometimes, from the middle of the street.
I took this photo from a small window on the stairway going up to our bedroom. The builder next door has taken down the modest bungalow we knew as Nick’s place and has dug a huge pit. They haven’t done any work since the excavation.… Read More
Yesterday we had a crew of roofers here at 27th Street all day. The menagerie was not impressed. The dogs and the cats were all extremely happy to see me when I got home from work (even more than usual), and they gathered around me,… Read More
The pair of three story, tall and narrow homes at the severed 2 Twenty Seventh Street property are standing now, and they are working on some stonework. Meanwhile across the street at 6, the builder who bought the place destroyed all of Alma’s beautiful shrubs… Read More
When they ripped out all the vegetation and tore down Alma’s house across the street, it must have displaced some local mice. Bruce found a way into the now vacant lot to check it out. He had a tougher time finding his way out.
Yesterday late afternoon, the last front yard tree was taken down across the street at number 6. It looks from here like he’s left one poplar tree in the back. All of Alma’s extensive shrubbery has been run through a chipper and is gone. This… Read More
Yesterday there was continued activity over at 2 Twenty Seventh. Contractors were removing tree trunks and debris, and loading it into dump trucks. At one point in the afternoon someone from the City parked out front and watched what was going on for an hour… Read More
Twenty Seventh Street is in Toronto, or at least it has been since 1998 when the former City of Etobicoke and other municipalities were amalgamated into the greater City. Anyone around here would never say Etobicoke though, but rather South Etobicoke. Some people would call… Read More
The first problem occurred Saturday afternoon, when the work crew at what was 2 Twenty Seventh Street knocked out power to part of our street for hours by hitting power lines with their equipment. In the past few days they also dug up the roots… Read More
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