I have been telling folks for years that trees are better at a safe distance from houses. But, a couple of items about your wildlife: look up betterthanlogs.com , an outfit that makes what are essentially long tiles shaped and colored like logs. They’re a beautiful siding that goes over new or existing surfaces. You…

MONORAIL. Someone always says how expensive a monorail system would be: how could it be more than thirty billion??!? Not to mention tunnels will be more and more problematic if the ocean level rises as predicted. Other places have working monorail systems.

I would guess that if the loss of control was die to parts failure or bad maintenance, the driver could sue to recover the job and the court costs. And I recently found out that many areas have such a thing as ambulance insurance, separate from normal health insurance, with a reasonable yearly fee. Even for medical…

They don’t need to swallow string for it to be a hazard. I had a string hanging off the patio eaves as I removed some old sunshades. After I put the sunshades in the trash, I came back and heard a very weak meow - my cat had been playing with the string, and was hanging about two feet off the ground with one forepaw…