Louie – Resurrection!

Exactly one year ago, in July 2011, I wrote for the first time about Louie – a wild wine ranking itself up a rain pipe next to my three-meters-above-ground kitchen window. Then, in February this year, I sadly announced the death of Louie, since the building’s owner had come upon the idea to clear the ground around it to attract new tenants for the empty place next to mine. I was quite shocked to hear the guy who did the cleaning work refer to poor Louie as an “excessive weed”.

Well, thing is, the exterminator seems to not have caught every bit and root of Louie, since he’s back! And with a vengeance I noticed his resurrection around May and was oddly moved that the triffid had risen from the dead. Zombie-Louie is growing strong and as of today has already recovered to man-height, eagerly stretching its arms this way and that, mostly though entangling the rain pipe again.



Since he is taking hold of new neighbor’s fence as well, and since I want to prevent that neighbor from getting upset with the triffid, I apologetically cut him a bit to size today and tried to persuade him to stick to that rain pipe instead of spreading all over the place. I hope he’ll heed my good intentions to keep him alive. I don’t dare to take a sapling though, because the dude would take over my apartment within a matter of weeks.

Thanks to new neighbors, I suppose the building owner won’t come along too often and order more attempts at extermination. In case that happens again though, I hope to notice it in advance so that I can save a sapling of the beast, with the intention to replant him yet again after the killing has been done. For the moment though, Louie is tightening its grip on my rain pipe and hail to his resurrection