FTLComm - Tisdale - October 29, 1998
The appearance and surrounding in which we live seem to reflect not only what we
want 
to
experience ourselves but also how we would things to be. Mrs. Haller has applied
her fall fertillizer and watered her lawn and while mine is brown and covered with
leaves, she has just finished trimming the rich green that surrounds her corner lot
home two blocks East of the Elementary School in Tisdale. Her yard is striking in
design because she has chosen manicured blue spruce and carefully placed shrubs defining
their location with river washed stones and brick retainers to create an ordered
but harmonic setting for her house, patio and garage. Last winter this house had
a simple but effect Christmas display on the corner and then this summer the same
location was graces with a fountain.
Being on a high traffic street with lots of short pedestrians coming and going it
is a constant struggle to keep the asethics up to par. The fountain was a delight
to children who liked to dabble in it or use its water to wash off the occassional
carrot. But it is the noisy night traffic that is perhaps the most offensive. This
past Saturday night Tisdale was something of a frontier town as the streets were
marked up with screeching tires in several parts of town, including the intersection
in front of Mrs. Haller's house. She is disappointed at her lawn being used as a
place to deposit empty beer bottles and other personal latex refuse.