Neighborhood Improvement

In keeping with my theme of maintaining a well kept lawn, boulevard, and sidewalks, of which I am proud to proclaim my proud, deep and long heritage, I was yet again spending my Sunday afternoon toiling in the front yard. (I think I'll put out an RFC for having an <s> and </s> tag added to the HTML5 specification. I think it will have to have a thickness attribute, too, kind of like the horizontal rule tag with it's size attribute. So the tag would look like <s thickness="4">Sarcasm!</s>  Oh, and maybe have style attributes like "sardonic" and "mordant") Anyway, </digress> I have to admit the property does look much better when it's been spiffed up. Much more work needed, too, but we have a good start. Need to get rid of the nasty weeds and other items that squelch the good things like the graminoids. I can see now that the graminoids don't have much of a chance with the "others." I personally like and enjoy taraxacum officinale, but who am I? It was yet again another particularly hot Minnesota August afternoon and I was sweating pretty good, so an occasional pause was necessary to wipe saltyness from my eyelids. During a pause, I see some activity down the street. There is a couple taking some items out of a green SUV and going into the fourth house down the street. And they were white people. That in itself is interesting. We have lived in our house for over ten years now and fourth house down the street has had a never-ending stream of ne'er-do-wells occupying it in an on-again/off-again fashion. They would either get kicked out or perhaps wind up incarcerated, I don't know. Eventually the couple sat on the front steps for a little bit. I wanted to go over and say hi and maybe do a little Gladys Kravitz type scrutiny. Before I was able they left in the green SUV. I certainly hope they are in the house to stay, as the change would be good. Hmmph. Back to the neighborhood improvement...