Red Hot Ice Cubes

 The shortest giant

On one of those late days of early summer

Jumped down onto the highest mountain

To raucously enjoy the quiet clamor 

Of the hoarse screaming banshees 

Just A Little Taste Of Normality

 

One week ago today...

What Is Meant By "Better Late Than Never", Example 1

 The best time to start investing your money in real estate instead of just spending it on rent was probably thirty years ago.

 The second best time is right about now.

Someone wealthy and wise said that, but I have no idea who.

Get Some Rest

 Number one on my list of things I could do that would make life more enjoyable/manageable/actually livable:

Get some rest.

Not Quite Neighborly

 

Understaffed, Overworked, That's Just The Way It's Been

 It sounds bizarre to hear myself say it, but I'm getting so accustomed to it that I do not know how to not get up and get ready for work. 

 Seriously, I have today off and I got up and went through my usual routine preparing for to go to work before I caught myself. 

 This is a problem. 

You Can Go Home Again...But Would You Want To?

 The other day MM & I were watching a re-broadcast of an episode of the show Cops. 

Or rather, he was watching an episode of the show Cops while I was unpacking the new printer and occasionally looking over at what was on the TV.

The show opened with the pursuit of a vehicle that had expired tags on the license plates. The pursuit was short as the vehicle pulled over fairly quickly, in the parking lot of a strip mall.

As the officer approached the vehicle MM said "Hey, that's Spring Valley, near the car wash." 

I looked up and sure enough it was SV, the good ol' stomping grounds of my glorious, misspent youth.

As the cameraman zero'd in on the driver of the pulled over vehicle MM commented again, "I know that guy, he was always carrying."

Which is all you need to know about the neighborhood I formerly called home.

Something Odd Along Sheridan Boulevard

 

The Unknown Sculptor

 Some years ago I posted a picture of a sculpture that had been placed on the median of Alameda just west of Wadsworth. It had nothing on or around it to identify the creator, and I had never seen any other work that resembled it to help identify the creator, so I simply wrote that the sculptor was unknown.

Here is another pic of that particular sculpture that I took the other day.

The reason I'm re-visiting this sculpture is because I stumbled across quite a few more sculptures by the same sculptor (Sculptors? Could be a consortium of sculptors working together I suppose).

They were placed in and around a shopping center located in north Denver, and the must have been there for some time, as the look a bit weathered.

Again I scrutinized each and everyone of the trove of sculptures for a name (or names) and again I came up with nothing.

So I'm just going to post the pics I took and maybe someday someone will recognize them and know who created them, and inform me of the sculptors identity.

Loud & Persistent

 The knocking on the door continued, loudly, without rhythm, yet constant. The question went from "Should I answer the door?" to "Should I get a baseball bat before I answer the door?"

GNH vs GNP

 

Well, according to the World Happiness Report (yep, there's a W.H.R. drawn up every year), they go hand-in-hand - hard not to be happy when you're prosperous.

T Minus Whatever

 Some people like to be prepared for every possible contingency...

Old Man With An Old Grudge

Old man scowling at the kid 

Kid wonders what the hell he did

Old doesn't have a reason for his hate

Has no sound reason to denigrate

But can't help himself

Sees the kid as a reprobate

Old man hates the way the kid

                              Cuts his hair

                              The music he listens too

                              Clothes he wears

                              Lives like nothing's taboo

                              Doesn't work, doesn't care

                              Isn't tough enough, can't make do

Old man can't remember when

He was the young man

 

Arc Of Peace

 

                                              Arc of Peace, Lorri Acott 2019, Bronze

                                              

The Art Thing

 

A Little Truck Humor