Dear Bruce, When I gardened in the Greenhaven-Pocket area, I found a balloon on a lawn. It was filled with spent helium. An attached string carried a postcard "If you find this, let me know --Sarah...,...School, Mrs....'s third grade class." Of course I wrote where (and when) I found the card, 25 miles from where she let it loose and mailed it on the way home. I'm pretty hopeful you'd attach a card (with postage) like Sarah did, but balloons post-pictured had no return address. What the heck, when wind returns, let's try it!
Dear Dawn, It's not a hinge, but a stabilizer. When we bought this crumbling farmhouse 40 years ago, we bought a walnut door to face south. Of course the combination of wet then frozen then 100+ degree weather did its mischief to the door. Happily, at the time one campus I gardened was discarding an aluminum parking lot sign directing traffic (new row for staff cars). I was reminded of an old Woody Guthrie song --studied in my '60s guitar days-- "Sign said 'NO TRESPASSING', other side said nothing. That side was made for you and me." So I used that free blank side to cut out elephants and fishes to secure the joints of that poor door. It has survived.
I love the story of the hinges in your reply to Dawn. It's been windy here a lot the last couple of years. Another sign of climate change, I read. Our trees are protesting. One lost a huge limb a couple of months ago.
Now how did I go from your beautiful and whimsical pictures to such depressing thoughts?? I'll have to focus on your hinges again.
0_Jenny, don't tempt hinge depression. Only time I'm bothered by hinge-depresson is when I stand up too fast at my age. Then, again, humorist Dylan Moran says he saves a lot of cash when he found he could do the same thing. Enigma of geriatric dizziness is an anathema to illicit drug trade.
Well written. We are O2 consumers and factories.
ReplyDeleteMost kind, dear Susan. Yes, we do efficiently combine O2 with carbon as plants separate them again --a friendly exchange. Good thing too!
DeleteThose door roses are beautiful!!!! Will be some time till ours will bloom.
ReplyDeleteDear Maddie, we appreciate those life-giving blooms with every breath. There's a reason they smell good.
DeleteWe are all iterations of Carbon.
ReplyDeleteDear Mike, succinctly phrased. I'm amazed and encouraged that I'll go on iterating carbon long beyond this me.
DeleteThose roses are perfect for such a whimsical door. And the way the wind has been blowing here recently those balloons could have come from us!
ReplyDeleteDear Bruce, When I gardened in the Greenhaven-Pocket area, I found a balloon on a lawn. It was filled with spent helium. An attached string carried a postcard "If you find this, let me know --Sarah...,...School, Mrs....'s third grade class."
DeleteOf course I wrote where (and when) I found the card, 25 miles from where she let it loose and mailed it on the way home.
I'm pretty hopeful you'd attach a card (with postage) like Sarah did, but balloons post-pictured had no return address. What the heck, when wind returns, let's try it!
Absolutely beautiful.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Dear Janie Junebug, high praise indeed. Thank you! Love appreciated and reciprocated.
DeleteRoses and balloon drift, must be nearly summer :-)
ReplyDeleteAround our Star again we go. I believe we have a dance.
DeleteWelcome, Juli G.! Most kind.
ReplyDeleteI'm fascinated by that Door, is that an Elephant Hinge? The Roses, well, who doesn't Love a Rose and it's heady Aroma.
ReplyDeleteDear Dawn, It's not a hinge, but a stabilizer. When we bought this crumbling farmhouse 40 years ago, we bought a walnut door to face south. Of course the combination of wet then frozen then 100+ degree weather did its mischief to the door. Happily, at the time one campus I gardened was discarding an aluminum parking lot sign directing traffic (new row for staff cars). I was reminded of an old Woody Guthrie song --studied in my '60s guitar days-- "Sign said 'NO TRESPASSING', other side said nothing. That side was made for you and me." So I used that free blank side to cut out elephants and fishes to secure the joints of that poor door. It has survived.
DeleteI love the story of the hinges in your reply to Dawn.
ReplyDeleteIt's been windy here a lot the last couple of years. Another sign of climate change, I read. Our trees are protesting. One lost a huge limb a couple of months ago.
Now how did I go from your beautiful and whimsical pictures to such depressing thoughts?? I'll have to focus on your hinges again.
0_Jenny, don't tempt hinge depression. Only time I'm bothered by hinge-depresson is when I stand up too fast at my age. Then, again, humorist Dylan Moran says he saves a lot of cash when he found he could do the same thing. Enigma of geriatric dizziness is an anathema to illicit drug trade.
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