TIME: 10:53 AM
PLACE: American Legion
SUBJECT: Utility Bucket Truck
What is this Ameren bucket truck doing at the American Legion?
TIME: 10:59 AM
It’s there to help re-cable the flagpole.
TIME: 11:00 AM
A really tall flagpole.
TIME: 11:23 PM
So the Girl Scouts can help raise the flag.
TIME: 11:30 AM
It looks great.
“Handing some guys the keys to a Bobcat or backhoe is like handing a group of teenagers the key to your liquor cabinet.”
~ Andy Wasowski, author
TIME: 1:14 PM
PLACE: Home
SUBJECT: Backhoe bucket
When we moved into this house, HH promised me he would run electric out to the detached garage…ten years later, I’m finally it. Pretty soon (I hope), when I park the Miata, I won’t have to stop, get out of the car, unlock the garage, pull up the garage door, get back in the car, maneuver the car into the garage (many times in the dark), get out and then finally, close the garage door and lock it back up. I’d like to think HH is doing it because he loves me and doesn’t want me to have to do all that work each time I drive the Miata. I really know it’s because he has his fancy-schmancy-mid-life-crisis parked in there too and he doesn’t want to do all that either. I’ll take what I can get.
“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.”
Bill Dana (American comedian, actor, and screenwriter, b1924)
TIME: 8:23 PM
PLACE: Bathroom tub
SUBJECT: Tessa and her water bucket
While Jack shares a water bowl with the dog, Tessa refuses to do so. Instead, she likes to drink out of a small, blue bucket that we keep in the bathtub. She prefers that it is filled to the top so she can drink without having her whiskers touch the bucket’s interior. If it isn’t filled up, and you just happen to be making use of the facilities, she will push her way through the bathroom door, jump on the tub and stare at you until you figure out that her bucket needs to be refilled. As you can see, I am trained well.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg (American writer & editor, 1878–1967)
TIME: 8:16 PM
PLACE: Longacre Park
SUBJECT: Bucket truck booms
Another day of painting the front porch steps. The final coat will go on tomorrow. I had a haircut at high noon; StellaDella had her bangs trimmed as well. Then a stop at the grocery store – which happened to have a $10 off your $50 purchase today – for today’s and tomorrow’s dinners. At 4pm, I attended a memorial service for a friend who had passed away unexpectedly last week. After dinner, it was my turn to take MonkeyBoy to the batting cages so he could get some practice in for the games this weekend. He didn’t do as well as he wanted and was a little upset about it, so I suggested we go to the park and walk around the lake to shake it off. These bucket trucks were parked across the street and I liked how they looked silhouetted against the sky.
From yonder o'er
The high seas, fast encroaching:
Here Come The Dragons.
Jess C. Scott, Viking Longship, Dragonsinn, 12 Dec 2007/6 Jun. 2009, <http://www.dragonsinn.net/Poetry/haiku.htm>
TIME: 10:09 AM
PLACE: Creve Coeur Lake, St. Louis MO
SUBJECT: Racing Dragon Boats and StellaDella
Well, I survived the races today! We were losers...4th place in the second to last consolation division to be exact! But it was a good time, the weather was beautiful, the kids behaved and I'm not too sore. I've posted more pictures at my other blog if you have a hankering to see more from the day. Now it's late and I'm off to bed!
