Journalistic Paper

A yard forgotten

By: Luis Victorelli, professor and journalist. Director of the ABJC and Union of the Journalists/SP.

 


Those who have a yard know how much it is rewarding, but also they know how much it takes to keep it. We can make of it a vegetable garden to take food to our table or a club for our delight. When the yard is large, there is always room to put our old stuff and that amount of junk things that is not useful for us anymore. In addition, we can still enjoy the pure air, the shade of the trees and the good fruits found in the place.

To have a so generous yard it is necessary to guarantee that it does not fall into wrong hands. After all, somebody may want to invade it, take possession of our goods and deprive us of so many benefits. We can place glass pieces on the walls or electric fences to inhibit its invasion and occupation. A good tip is to leave some dogs there.

Studies on animal behavior reveal that, with good training, at least two species mold to our noblest interests. Lately, Pets are the most recommended. Clean and well behaved, they adjust well to antifleas necklaces. The breed has as characteristic an apparent sweetness, but they like to walk inside the house of the owner, sleep in the bed and only eat top dog food. They use the yard only for their physiological necessities.

The other species is more aggressive, the pit bull type. It was largely used to demarcate the first territories of the yard. People say that, when threatened, they could even cut the hands of the invader. They also became excessively dangerous, even for the owner. Untrustable, they were slowly substituted. E thus the time was passing. For other priorities, more attractive properties received all and the best attention.
The yard was forgotten. Ill treated for the insult, it searched its defenses, irregular, incomplete and ugly to our looks… but defenses still. A yard is neither better nor worse because it is in the front or at the back of the house, whatever the architecture that we invent. It should not be taken care with ferocity or mildness, nor with abandonment or with cements. A place, any place, where people live must be dealt with respect.