And today is apparently the day...

[agilebrit]

We lose our view from the back yard. What there is of it.

As some of you know, the Utah Transit Authority, in its infinite wisdom (why, yes, that's sarcasm you detect), had decreed that a TRAX light rail line is going to run on the existing train track behind our house. This involves the installation of a sound wall. Which is going up right now.

I don't know whether to be glad to finally be insulated from the insanity of the Reception Center across the street, which the police get called to on a regular basis, or lament the fact that the view out my back window for the rest of my life is going to consist of a flat, gray, 20-foot-high, concrete wall.

Feh.

Comments

[cathyteach2.livejournal.com]

Can you plant some tall trees (arborvitae are nice) to make the view a little nicer? If you can do some landscaping, it doesn't have to be too bad - at least you will have some privacy.

OK, I will stop being the annoying "glass is half full" friend now. :)

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

We've got a five and a half foot wall there anyway, and we keep planting poplars, and they keep dying. Also, the sound wall is going to shade anything we try to plant there, because it's the south side of the house, so...yeah. I don't even know if the trees that have survived so far are going to survive this. *sigh*

[cathyteach2.livejournal.com]

You should go to Lowes and ask one of the specialists in the Outdoor Garden Center about what kinds of trees would do well in a shady area. They are pretty knowledgeable and maybe would have some good suggestions for you... creeping ivy, maybe???

[highlander_ii]

Yeah - that's what I was going to suggest. Do some research and see what grows pretty well in the shade. Anything to make 'ugly wall' less noticeable.

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

Kudzu. The stuff's indestructible and grows like a weed. Or ivy, as someone else suggested.

*points to icon banging its head against your brand-new sound wall*

[fierynotes.livejournal.com]

Have you ever felt an impulse to make a giant painting, but lacked the space up until now?

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

You know, I did think of that...

I wonder if it would even be LEGAL.

And if taggers hit my side of the wall, I'm going to be pissed.

[cathyteach2.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like this idea! :)

Giant IronMan mural! ;)

[bigsciencybrain.livejournal.com]

Tag that sucker!! :D

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

Clearly you should paint murals on the wall. : )

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

Dude. Twenty-foot-high concrete wall? My sympathies.

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

That's, yeah, that just sucks. I'm sorry.