Author: Prince Of Petworth

Random Reader Rant and/or Revel

By Prince Of Petworth


photo by Lee M..

You can talk about whatever is on your mind – quality of life issues, a beautiful tree you spotted, scuttlebutt, or any random questions/thoughts you may have. But please no personal attacks and no need to correct people’s grammar. This is a place to vent and/or celebrate things about daily life in D.C.

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Great Garden Haul – “for the bees”

By Prince Of Petworth

Thanks to Max for sending from Brightwood Park:

“It has been a good garden year for the bees – lots of bumble bees, honey bees, carder bees and other small solitary bees. Goldfinches every day enjoying the sunflowers and black eyed susans. Mockingbirds enjoying the tomatoes. :(. Woodpeckers enjoying sunflowers, which was surprising. Butterflies stopping by various blooms. I even saw a dragonfly swooping thru for about 10min today. Neighborhood cats seem to enjoy the cover.

Flowers > grass.”

Please send your great garden hauls via email to [email protected] with Garden Haul in the subject line and let me know what you’ve grown and what neighborhood you are in. Entries will be accepted now through Labor Day. Cheers, thanks and happy gardening!

Your Afternoon Animal Fix

By Prince Of Petworth

If you have any animal/pet photos you’d like to share please send an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail(dot)com with ‘Animal Fix’ in the title and say the name of your pet and your neighborhood.  If you love the animal fix and want to ensure PoPville’s long term viability please consider donating to our Patreon here.

“It’s adoptiversary time for Cosmo (canine) and Natasha (tuxedo kitty) in July, and Boris (orange kitty) in September, all of Petworth.”

“DC DMV Vehicle renewal portal has been down for over 2 days”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

I did my required car inspection two days ago at 1PM. After I finished the inspection I went online to pay for it before my inspection expires on Jul 20th. The site has been down, saying it will go back online the next morning.

When I checked the next morning, Jul 19th it said it will be back that evening by 6pm.
This keeps on happening again and again. Not only does the site stay down, they keep changing not only the time it will be back online but the time it went down! Basically, they are lying the site has only been down since yesterday, where it has been down for at least 2 days.

The problem is that now that my inspection expired and I haven’t paid for the new one I will get charged with penalty fees – $20 per day. And there’s nothing I can do about it! The site is down, obviously someone fked up or did something terribly wrong because their original estimation of yesterday is far off and it’s still down, and they just blantly lie about the downtime.

This is from yesterday: (more…)

“With the dearth of parking spots available in the immediate area, it seems only fair that everyone play by the same rules with respect to parking.”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

Someone at Chaplin’s parks his very large Mercedes SUV in the same tow away zone located directly in front of the main entrance at the corner of 9th and P St, NW every time they visit and/or is working at the location. They are not loading/unloading; rather they park there the entire day. The place where they park is clearly marked as NO STANDING OR PARKING ANYTIME, yet every time I pass the restaurant, the same black SUV that belongs to them is illegally parked and to the best of my knowledge, has not received a ticket or been towed for parking illegally. This illegal parking creates a potentially dangerous situation should emergency vehicles like fire and/or EMS need to access Chaplin’s or the surrounding structures. (more…)

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