{"id":552,"date":"2026-10-14T16:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=552"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:26:24","slug":"519-lakeshore-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/519-lakeshore-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"519 Lakeshore Dr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">519 Lakeshore Dr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 bedroom, 1 bath, dining and living room,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">kitchen and deck.&nbsp; I did a lot of work on that house:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">took off wall paper with rabbits on it, painted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">each room except the living room, it had paneling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the rain, I put up a fence for the dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tore up, killed all the English ivy in the front yard,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">it had climbed up the foundation wall, up the supports<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">for the porch.&nbsp; Laid down landscape fabric over<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">which I spread the leaves I got from the city<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to use as mulch.&nbsp; I was going to make<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a natural garden in the front yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until Wendy died.&nbsp; I would look up at her house,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">know that she would never be there to take care<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of my dog when I was gone, help me choose,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">plant native flowers, help me with the vegetable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">garden. Coming home to 519 was never the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I left for a bigger house in the woods<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with a stream running in the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stripes Literary Magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>519 Lakeshore Dr. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, dining and living room, kitchen and deck.&nbsp; I did a lot of work on that house: took off wall paper with rabbits on it, painted each room except the living room, it had paneling.&nbsp; In the rain, I put up a fence for the dog. I tore up,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/519-lakeshore-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">519 Lakeshore Dr.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}