Hello again! Now that this will be coming out in March let’s hope that this last week of February is the LAST of our rain. While I do like the rain and we really need it, I firmly believe this year was a bit too much.

And this brings us again to the speed of the cars on Redwood Shores Parkway [RWSPky]. As the weather clears our kids will be walking to school and everyone who uses RWSPky really needs to drive slower and be paying attention.

I’m still waiting for the toxic results of the goose bait. Hopefully I will have more info for next month. Being that our lagoons are on the migratory pathway for much wildlife, most of the Canada geese are gone, with some stragglers over behind Oracle near the slough. The Davit Lagoon has many of the small migratory ducks in now and again, as usual, many people out taking pictures. As of February 1st the Fish & Wildlife have told me it is now illegal to put those large bait trap boxes into our lagoons. Should you see anyone doing so — in the late evening hours — you should call our Police Dept. immediately and ask them to have our Community Officer get here as soon as possible.

This has happened twice along Davit, but in mid afternoon. The two men were squatted down at the water’s edge, the first time throwing the rocks in the water and the second time coiling some kind of wire and tossing that in. According to the Fish & Game you can still fish in the sloughs beyond the RWS levees, but a commercial fishing license is required.

Was talking with some of the crew working on the levee’s and to answer many questions I was told that in some areas the trees/bushes had to be removed in order to strengthen the levee’s. Hopefully this will answer many questions I have received.

Again, please be sure that when walking your dog it is on a leash and be sure to pick up any feces it may have left. As I’ve said before, by letting your dogs sniff another’s left-overs and if that dog had a disease your dog can contract it.

Many of the calls were relative to the various road markings. We all know about the red, green and yellow areas, but it’s the solid, rectangular and striped ones we seem to forget about. In an auxiliary lane you can do the speed limit — 65 — but if you are not planning to exit when you see the rectangular blocks show up it is time to get to your left into a regular lane. Solid lines mean no crossing over into that lane, which is why when driving all your attention should be on your driving and which lanes you need to get there safely.

Also remember that on the freeways the DMV says to leave a car length between you and the one in front, but please don’t do that with our local streets. The signal lights are not set for that much time between cars and only about three can make it through until the yellow comes on. By leaving 5 feet or so between cars several more can get through before the light changes and we won’t see so many that are now running the red. Also for any newcomers, you can turn right on a red if you are going into the immediate right lane and IF THERE ARE NO ON-COMING CARS. A final reminder PLEASE USE YOUR SIGNAL LIGHTS. There is nothing more maddening then not knowing what the car ahead of you plans to do or when it will stop and the same for one coming toward you. And if you find you are running ‘late’ try starting earlier and give yourself a break.

See you at the end of March at the Easter Egg Hunt.

— Pat Dixon, the Swan Lady