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Update on the gingko tree.
Turned out it was a FLY TRAP. That's right folks! Apparently flies are attracted to dead meat, no kidding, really she says.
And the neighbors bought this thing so that their GIANT PIT BULL would not get bit by flies during the afternoons because instead of sometimes going inside the house (where hopefully the amount of flies would decrease, said dog, named Raphael and/or Leonardo there are two of them and I can't tell them apart (for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
for all you fans). Anyway, apparently these fly traps work amazingly well but when I looked them up on the good ole net, they say, do not put next to neighbors because, well, they smell like DEAD OLD ROTTING MEAT!!! And when D happened to peer over the fence and look into the pit bulls's yard he gagged, then told me to NEVER LOOK OVER THE FENCE. Neighbor has since been made aware that there is a strange dead smell coming from their side of the yard and smell is mostly gone. Though sometimes it appears to eminate from their trash, which does not come with trash can lids, because, well you know that would just be too much kindness for neighbors that live 2 feet from one another.