[Edit 12-07-10]
The debris shown in the lower photo was BLOWN away with a strapped on compressed air blowing device. about a week ago. The worker was not wearing a mask or any protection.
Although the site looks better, I still leave all of my windows closed all of the time due to fear that the bird debris will still cause problems. A mother raccoon with 3 cubs were right outside my door the other night.
Oh and... at least one bird feeder is gone, however I have no view of the deck so I cannot see for sure if there are none.
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The upper image is a Google Street View scene showing the front of the apartment building I live in. My apartment is the one on the ground floor.
The lower image is a photo I took showing the ground next to the wall just outside my windows. For the sake of perspective, the "A" pointer on the street view image is just about exactly where the water spigot comes out of the wall. The light brown or beige-ish material next to the wall is bird seed. The bird seed drops to the ground from the balcony outside of the upper floor unit of the apartment. It has accumulated for about 2 1/2 years.
The light colored specks visible on the tree trunk are also actually seeds, and not a flaw in the photo. The trunk is the lower part of the large tree on the left in the street view image.
Although not visible in this photo, seeds are also scattered throughout the green shrubbery. In the street view photo my kitchen window is on the left. So most of the seed debris is directly under that. Needless to say, the debris is composed of more than simply seeds. It consists of all that accompanies birds wherever they might feed.
My deviant friends, I would ask that if you should happen for some reason to view these images, if you could simply leave a comment with your impression.
The debris shown in the lower photo was BLOWN away with a strapped on compressed air blowing device. about a week ago. The worker was not wearing a mask or any protection.
Although the site looks better, I still leave all of my windows closed all of the time due to fear that the bird debris will still cause problems. A mother raccoon with 3 cubs were right outside my door the other night.
Oh and... at least one bird feeder is gone, however I have no view of the deck so I cannot see for sure if there are none.
[Original post begins here:]
The upper image is a Google Street View scene showing the front of the apartment building I live in. My apartment is the one on the ground floor.
The lower image is a photo I took showing the ground next to the wall just outside my windows. For the sake of perspective, the "A" pointer on the street view image is just about exactly where the water spigot comes out of the wall. The light brown or beige-ish material next to the wall is bird seed. The bird seed drops to the ground from the balcony outside of the upper floor unit of the apartment. It has accumulated for about 2 1/2 years.
The light colored specks visible on the tree trunk are also actually seeds, and not a flaw in the photo. The trunk is the lower part of the large tree on the left in the street view image.
Although not visible in this photo, seeds are also scattered throughout the green shrubbery. In the street view photo my kitchen window is on the left. So most of the seed debris is directly under that. Needless to say, the debris is composed of more than simply seeds. It consists of all that accompanies birds wherever they might feed.
My deviant friends, I would ask that if you should happen for some reason to view these images, if you could simply leave a comment with your impression.
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Hopefully this unpleasant conditions get out of your way soon.
My main objection is that the stuff deteriorates and then pollutes the air that comes in my windows.
Actually, cats are part of the problem. The birds attract the many feral cats in the neighborhood.
Etc, but if I start in, I'll just rave on for a while.
I'm hoping for an agreeable resolution soon.
I keep my firngers crossed for you that the unpleasant mess will get cleaned up and stopped for good.
Does not sound healthy ,they have lice some kinds and bring desease.
Anyway good to picture you in a place somehow
People seem to kind of shrug it off.
Methinks they would not do so if it were going on right outside of their window. It is not necessarily an "indecent" neighborhood, but nowhere in town have I seen anything similar.
I have not of course toured the entire length and breadth of the city.
But my mode of travel is usually by foot - I don't drive a car - so i do get a somewhat better view of the places I go in town than most people in cars. I am not anywhere near a "greenbelt" btw.
Heck of a lot of feral animals though. Cats, raccoons, mice - no rats sighted, but that does not necessarily they're absent. In the past I've seen opossums and once in 12 years a skunk just beyond the property. I think maybe the raccoons have chased those other larger animals away but I'm not familiar with how that mix of animals might interact.
And of course there's a variety of birds, mostly sparrows and blackbirds or an occasional robin, but also sometimes crows and pigeons attracted to large pieces of bread tossed into the street and sidewalk just beyond the fence.
The property here simply needs some proper maintenance and oversight by the landlord... that's all there is to it. I will agree with "tacky" but it's not anywhere as decadent as a full bore "ghetto".
It does not actually smell, however "tasteless, odorless, and colorless" toxins and other microscopic menaces could be present and get into the air. It gets pretty windy here regularly.
and the landlord sounds more like a slumlord, those rocks are so aesthetically unappealing to my eyes, it just looks like a B&E smash-&-grab type of robbery just WAITING to happen.
The landlord cleaned things up somewhat. We had a rather extended dialog, not unfriendly, really, considering.
But no bootsie. I've not known true slum but I used to hear the word when I was a kid. At that time it seems to me the word was used mostly for the largest cities in the country, where thousands of people lived in hideous conditions. From that time, a kid, I sorta remember black and white photos, or perhaps video portions of the TV news. Awareness of "ghetto" and "slum" and "tenement" and "skid row" seemed to begin to grow when I was a teenager. I'm not sure if that awareness has just ceased growing.
The closest I ever got to conditions that were atrocious and humanly degrading was at residential hotels in the Tenderloin.
Although it had long since ceased to be my domain, I was a suburban kid, with still a heavy accumulation of midwest manners, etc.
When I was in my forties after 30 years in California, I visited friends of my brother in one of those residential hotels. Cockroaches. An interior like the interior of a Raid (TM) can must be like to any living organism that would get imprisoned in one.
The pesticide didn't stop the roaches though. And it was most definitely not our friends upkeep of the place. Somehow the pests were managing seemingly to confine themselves to the apartments and avoid, mysteriously, the halls and other public areas.
That, as revolting as it may seem to some who might read this, is not near what my impression of "slum" or "ghetto", and so forth - areas where conditions are blamed upon the people who live there.
But they have not so much blame. Others do.
I understand why you might use a word so fierce as you have. My landlord, I believe, is not unreasonable.
So far as I know he does not own and control any large expanse of the present day unfit and improper housing that's doled out to human beings and gives no place for those poor people to move on from their sorrows, despairs, lamentations and great grievings than so few hear.
But that they are among the others who suffer. Then they've heard it all.
In my own small part of this (karmic) mess, I for one wish that instead of politicians, these downtrodden people be heard.
Now.
as far as me calling it him a slumlord i'm discussing his behavior and business practices, very suspect. i can say i've dealt with guys like that, some more aggressive than this dude. one of these places was in Koreatown in LA a few years back. MAN was that place something else! they were trying to gentrify the neighborhood to generate some money so new faces were showing up intermingling with the old riff-raff, so you basically know what's going to happen there with this kind of unstable mixture.........
........volatile combustion.
your place still sounds nasty though, esp with the crap being blown all over the place.
Do an ebook and illustrate it with fractals.
They would be the bright side you know: where u wuz & where u r.
And then proceed onto your written text story.
I don't make anything out of your life. You make your life out of your life.
I guess if crayons and coloring books were a part you'd use them if you felt they worked for what you wanted to do.
Contact the landlord, in writing with pictures and ask him to intervene.
Contact the Board of Health for advice.
Buy your neighbor a small bag of hull-less seed without millet & corn. Print out some articles about the food preferences of the birds common to your area and best feeding practices. Print out pictures of feeders with catch trays and squirrel deterrents.
Kill the neighbor with kindness. Engage the landlord and public officials using honey instead of vinegar.
When you've satisfied your internal need to be reasonable and everything has failed go to plan B and then Plan C.
B.) File for a cease and desist nuisance order in low court. The filing used to be about $25 and would take a month for the docket to come before a Judge. IF he/she decides in your favor the other party bears the court costs and your filing fee and you will have an enemy for life.
C.) Enlist someone (wearing gloves and mask) to collect the mess and deposit it on the neighbor's entrance so they have it on the doorstep when they return home. You will probably have an angry, vindictive neighbor until one of you moves.
This is the kind of problem that erodes the pleasure in your home and will gnaw at you endlessly.
My suggestions may not help in reality but you might just laugh a little at a non-laughing matter.
Ideas usually beget more.
My reply to you is up above - it always seems so out of context when this happens and once it's done it doesn't seem possible to move the response.
They really should put an explicit "new reply" button label where that's applicable.
The last 3-leg race I participated in was near 50 years ago. heheheh... we lost.
I quit after I'd achieved loser status.