The Number Three

Pretty self explanatory.

Plastic Plant Pots

A couple of weeks ago it was incredibly windy in the Vancouver area. Wind gusts up to 144km/h.

Not only was the wind itself quite loud during the night, but a variety of empty plastic plant pots were blown onto our patio from above. They blew into the corner which is walled off, directly outside my bedroom window, and rattled around and around and around.

We had to get up and go out twice during the night to pick one up to stop the noise, and there was another in the morning. And another sometime later the next day.

Fire

Archive: May 25, 2008

Ok, not technically "on" my patio, but close enough, and I was on my patio when I took the picture.


I thought somebody was barbecuing for a few minutes, until I looked outside and saw the entire street was clouded with smoke.


Guessing that somebody threw a cigarette into the mulch under the trees on the sidewalk.


Some months later, I was walking along the sidewalk on the opposite side of the block, and noticed somebody had done the same thing, only it hadn't grown as big... I went into the nearby falafel shop and told them "somebody is trying to set your bushes on fire". I got a cup of water from them and put it out myself.

Mop Head

Archive: March 1, 2008


Pretty self explanatory.

Lint

It's been over a year since my last update, but it's such a nice day out it's time to start thinking patio again!

As much as I appreciate having clean dryer vents, having 30 floors times 5 years worth of accumulated dryer lint on my patio I appreciate less so.

I went out yesterday during the vent cleaning and lint was raining down on the entire block like ash. Two police cars were parked outside the building with flashers on. I don't know if it's related, but they were sure curious about the lint storm.

A day later, this is how it looked...

Yummy. Dunno how I'm going to get rid of it, it's caked on everything.

Snow

I think this one is pretty self explanitory.

With 27 cm on the ground yesterday, Vancouver is on pace for its snowiest-ever Christmas Day. The record of 30 cm was set in 1964.
“If we get our snow, in all likelihood we’ll have the greatest amount of snow on the ground in Vancouver ever recorded,” said Environment Canada’s Greg Pearce.
The city had received 47 cm this month — almost three times the December average of 16.3 cm.
-- The Province

See my fence a couple of years ago for comparison; less snow, more broken.

Hypodermic Needle

Archive: March 31, 2007

So far probably the least desirable of all of the Things I've Found On My Patio is this hypodermic needle. I suspect it was thrown up from the street, since it landed flush against the building it would have been almost impossible to drop there from above.

My neighborhood isn't a ghetto but it's also a few blocks from places you don't really want to be at night, so I guess the odd needle here and there isn't entirely surprising, although the location of this one was. I'm just glad it didn't arrive while I was on my patio reading, taking in the view, or documenting other Things I Find On My Patio.

As with anything thrown onto my patio, you would need to be standing in front of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police office in order to reach my patio which is essentially the police office roof. Why somebody chose this particular location to dispose of their drug parephenalia I couldn't say.