contractor arrgh

[boxofdelights]

I am not a morning person. I *can* get up in the morning, but I need advance notice. Email when you're on the way to my house is not advance notice.

Another step towards house fixing: the lab guy took samples from everything to test for asbestos.

He asked what kind of tree the catalpa was. I praised its beauty and its scent in spring, but when he said he was looking for a tree to plant I warned about the enormous seed pods and the fact that, with climate change, well, none of the trees know when to leaf out anymore, but the catalpa's big leaves and weak wood mean that when it gets a load of wet snow in May it's going to lose a lot of branches. Later, when he was telling me which kinds of materials are likely to have asbestos and which are not, he said, "I'm glad to know that you're not one of those science-deniers." Climate change! It's a shibboleth!

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[conuly]

I don't know how anybody can continue to deny climate change when we've got mockingbirds in NYC.

[boxofdelights]

My cousin, whom I love despite her politics, doesn't quite deny climate change, but she denies that we have any reason to think that it is caused by human activity, or that the change is going to continue in the same direction.

[conuly]

Thank goodness there are a bajillion other excellent reasons not to want to fill the air we breathe up with garbage.

[lilysea]

I am not a morning person. I *can* get up in the morning, but I need advance notice. Email when you're on the way to my house is not advance notice.

Aaaaaaaaaargh!

Nope nope nope!

(and, what if you'd left for work already?)

[boxofdelights]

I don't know! They're going to put a lock box on the door once the demolition starts, so they can get in any time, but I will be sleeping elsewhere by then.