We planted these last weekend, but I’m just getting around to posting. The “Endless Summer” hydrangea will be going to the left of the front steps as you look at the house. There’s a honeysuckle, three astilbes, two lilyturfs, snapdragons, a Japanese sedge, and a delphinium. I bought two gorgeous, full fuchsias to hang on the porch. We were watering every day, and the fuchsias started to wilt. I read, albeit too late, that I had probably killed them by overwatering. Shit. The Black Thumb strikes again.
I find myself in the tenuous situation of actually wanting to vote for a Republican on the city’s mayoral race. Councilman Bill Schmidt is a good all-around guy who is listening to our concerns as citizens on the code violations, the illegal immigrant situation (another pig was slaughtered last Saturday, I didn’t mention the first one because the story is too horrifying), the necessity of canceling any plans for more Section 8 housing (Peekskill is one of only six Westchester towns that has any Section 8 housing. One. Of. Six.), to broaden the tax base by attracting more middle-class citizens to the city. The city is filled to the brim with Section 8 and low-income housing already, these people are sucking on the teat of the middle class and not giving anything back. There are people who have lived in Bohlman Towers for forty years. And are proud of it. Like that’s something to aspire to. Pretty soon, if they keep erecting low-income housing, all of us who make more than they do are going to move away and then where is the city’s tax base? It’s a catch-22, are there more poor people in Peekskill because there is so much low-income housing? Or is there so much low-income housing because of the poor people? The “Old Peekskillians” who want nothing to change are going to be the downfall of this city if we’re not careful.
