Don't even go there! Coal fired plants should be inexpensive given this country has such reserves, but not in the hands of our local utility. Sigh...

Power companies are monopolies here. No competition. I'd love to have solar panels on my roof and a windmill in the back garden since there is always wind here. But the socialist stormtroopers, I mean homeowners association is so focused on green lawns that the state had to pass a law to permit clothes lines after the HOAs put deed restrictions forbidding them!

Darned if I know. I hate the homeowners stormtroopers. They'll focus on lawns and shrubs and shabby fences, but let real trouble hit a neighbor and they're nowhere to be found. I suspect they were invented to keep fees flowing to realtors and management companies on an annual basis.

Think the no clothesline thing came in back when clothes dryers became a symbol of middle class versus poverty and the lawn fanatics can't let it go. Too much control to keep every house looking like the other while waving the specter of junker cars parked in front lawns.

But what if the raccoons get into our laundry?!

They're curious little <expletives> and will climb to get away from dogs. Between the pine tar dripping from the trees and needles that blow down and the staining from the oak trees, the birds are the least of our worries.