At the end of the street profiled yesterday, Acadia Avenue, there is a road going left called Crater Lake Avenue. It is several blocks long but doesn’t go anywhere–just another dead-end street.

I actually had the occasion to meet the owner. It didn’t start out pleasantly though. She has several dogs, and one day one of them was running loose outside while I was walking my dogs. Her dog attacked Buddy and wouldn’t back off despite my yelling and kicking. She came running out and got between the two dogs and wound up getting knocked to the ground before her dog retreated. Later on, one of the security guards requested that I not walk down “her” street anymore in case the dog was out again. I responded that’s bullshit, I live here, I’ll walk where I please. The guard said, “you are just a renter and she is an owner…” WTF?

We met again a few weeks later while she was out walking. She told me it was okay to walk on her street now because she doesn’t let her dog out anymore. We chatted some and she told me she was a Filipino-American who used to live and work in Norfolk, Virginia. She’s married to a woman who works on a ship. They built the house she lives in and she stays home to take care of things. Anyway, she seems like a nice enough person and we always wave and say hello when we pass each other on the streets of Alta Vista.

As you look up Crater Lake Avenue in the above photo, you see a large building on the right. That’s the backside of the Alta Vista community center. There is no access from Crater Lake, but the buildings takes up the rest of that side of the street. The left side is like a large garden with various plants and vegetables being grown. The owner told me her spouse won’t allow her to work, so she grows these gardens as a hobby.

She has the only house on Crater Lake Avenue and it doesn’t appear she will ever have neighbors. I’m sure that’s the way they want it to stay.

The tally thus far:

2 streets

3 houses