Well, I guess it all started with a complaint. From what I understand, several complaints to the city.
About Bittersweet. Bittersweet Park in Greeley, not Bittersweet Beer.
Anyway, people have been complaining a lot about how bad the park looks now. Weeds, no grass, lots of dirt.
I always liked the park because of the Veterans’ Memorial and the Law Officers’ Memorial — Important stops along our journey.
So, I decided I would go over to the park and have a look for myself. Parked in the parking lot and I was the only one there. Started walking.
It was just a little warm that afternoon, 97 degrees, and you could feel it just walking along on the sidewalk.
Kept walking. On one side of the sidewalk was the dead grass and dirt. On the other side were the weeds. Thick, heavy, covering the ground. Couldn’t see any grass, except the stuff that was dead and that pretty gray-yellow color.
Walked from one memorial to the other, on the scorching sidewalk.
Did I mention it was hot? It had reached about 235 degrees by then.
Anyway, I decided I would walk on the dead grass and weeds instead of the hot sidewalk.
Nope. As soon as I stepped on the ground, I sunk into mud. Great. At least the city is watering the stuff, trying to make it grow.
Then I saw a city worker, and decided to ask him what was going on. Walked over to him, said “Can you tell me what they’re doing with the park?”
City worker: “Grass.” He said, looking down and tapping his foot on the weeds.
Me: “What are they doing about the grass?”
Worker: “Grass,” he said again, tapping his foot again. And then he left.
Me: “Thanks.”
I started walking around again, found a sign:
“PARDON OUR PROGRESS” it began.
Then it explained they’d planted “low-growing and water-thrifty buffalo and blue grama grasses,” and they are hoping to choke out the weeds. They said our patience is appreciated.
Well, that explains everything, except that the weeds appear to be winning the fight.
Then I found another sign, which said the work would be complete by 2023.
I’m glad the city had the signs out there; but they need to put a bigger sign so drivers on 35 th Avenue can read it.
You know about 35 th Avenue, don’t you? It’s full of crazy drivers.
Anyway, the letters on the signs are so small, drivers can’t read them unless they stop. And if you stop on 35 th Avenue, you’re dead.
So, the city should put up a big sign or a billboard.
With HUGE letters:
“GET OFF OUR BACKS!
GRASS HAS BEEN PLANTED!
GIVE US THREE YEARS!”
And, if you have other questions, you can stop and talk to the city worker.
Be sure to leave room for him to tap his foot on the weeds.
— The name Gnarly Trombone was taken from an 1871 Cincinnati newspaper that misread Horace Greeley’s handwritten name of the Greeley Tribune. Mike Peters is a retired Tribune staff writer. He may be emailed at mrpeters26@comcast.net.
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