A suburbanite contends with kudzu
Recommended Stories Inside Scoop: Data center debate, empathy gone wild, Talarico’s woke past Inside Scoop: Working-class zeros, Courting Disaster, Nevada’s big gamble Socialist primary wins could complicate Jeffries’ path to the speaker’s gavel The legends about this vine may not all be true. It may have never crept in through a bedroom window and strangled a sleeping man, but I still close the windows at bedtime, even on cool nights. If you give this devil an inch, it will take a mile, probably within a week.AdvertisementKudzu is a vine imported from Japan last century.
- ▪Recommended Stories Inside Scoop: Data center debate, empathy gone wild, Talarico’s woke past Inside Scoop: Working-class zeros, Courting Disaster, Nevada’s big gamble Socialist primary wins could complicate Jeffries’ path to the speaker’s
- ▪It may have never crept in through a bedroom window and strangled a sleeping man, but I still close the windows at bedtime, even on cool nights.
- ▪If you give this devil an inch, it will take a mile, probably within a week.AdvertisementKudzu is a vine imported from Japan last century.
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When the summer heat oppresses even the raccoons at night, and the humidity convinces the stags and does to lie in place, and when the Harleys and the Hondas screaming down Arlington Boulevard surrender to the swelter and finally go home, my suburban backyard grows so quiet that, I swear, you can hear the kudzu climbing up my hill. Recommended Stories Inside Scoop: Data center debate, empathy gone wild, Talarico’s woke past Inside Scoop: Working-class zeros, Courting Disaster, Nevada’s big gamble Socialist primary wins could complicate Jeffries’ path to the speaker’s gavel The legends about this vine may not all be true. It may have never crept in through a bedroom window and strangled a sleeping man, but I still close the windows at bedtime, even on cool nights.
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