Michaelandia, or the Shoe Tree Is...
no more a shoe tree. It is now just a sad-looking, drought-stunted shoeless tree. Judging by the markings in the dirt around it, i'm guessing the owners did not want a shoe tree Out There anymore. Bummer. Well, checking on the shoe tree was not my reason for being out there tonight. I was more concerned with seeing is the signs proclaiming the area to be now known as Michaelandia had been installed. They had not. Nor had Google, parent company of this here blogger.com, got around to changing the name of the area on their maps. You'd think they would be a little more cooperative with someone who brings so much traffic to their door, or windows, or something. But no. I actually called them up this mid-morning and asked them, hey, what's up? I made an executive decision, notifying you googlie guys that the name of the wash, or the spreading grounds, or the Out There, or whatever name it might have had before, was now, and henceforward to be known, and only referred to as Mich...
