D.O.P.-T. (Saturday)

The neighbors whose landlord trims the life out of everything in what yard is left around their long, low, two-family house have grown a tall sunflower. Its head has finally opened and peeks over our fence.

D.O.P.-T. (Sunday)

The city finally instituted watering regulations. I wouldn't even have known about them, except this week the Mercury News people decided to give us a Sunnyvale Sun for the first time in months, and I happened to spot it in the shrubbery. Unfortunately one of the regulations is no more than 15 minutes of watering a day, which will cause me to actually use more water - I had been watering the grass front and back once a week, but I can't cycle the sprinkler through all the positions in 15 minutes while running it low, so I'll have to turn it up higher in front and split the back between two days. I also wonder how they think we will all find out about this - I doubt it will be covered at any great length on TV, and who has time for the TV news anyway?

D.O.P.-T. (day before yesterday)

The office building near the library is going to become a daycare center after all, though I still can't see where they will put the playground. I noticed that the wisteria had returned from the dead for the second time, putting out quite a bush of foliage from between two concrete slabs. But walking home from the bus this morning I saw they'd cut the poor thing down again.