The purple "Grapenut"
Friend Howard
Icabod the Snake
Icabod Up Close
Purple Greenbeans From My Garden
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
THREE DAYS OF THE CODGERS
Yesterday Husband came home looking dejected and pitiful, prompting me to ask, "what's wrong?" He sat down, removed his glasses and told how in the process of fixing friend Howard's VW, he nearly set fire to the entire shop and immolated friend Howard as well as his VW, sometimes referred to as the purple "grapenut."
Picture here if you will a purple VW bug, at once a pristine, nostalgic, and overstated emblem of egotistic eccentricity. Whew, that statement hurt as much as childbirth. Meanwhile, enjoy a picture from my garden.
It was a woeful admission, requiring a healing remark to repair his sagging confidence. It seems he forgot to reattach the fuel line and then asked Howard to start the grapenut, which began spewing gasoline. He saw it and shouted to turn it off averting disaster. We are grateful that friend Howard, who is hard of hearing, got the message.
I comforted Husband with the reminder of my mega-mistake of the day before, which entailed another misadventure with the infamous Cub Cadet. I felt inspired to cut grass, get some sunshine, and smell the wild onions. So off I go on the Cub Cadet. I no sooner pass the pumphouse than there are pieces of flying extension cord passing on either side. It seems I drove over an electrocution trap laid by Husband, who was by this time running and shouting, "Drop it," meaning the section of cord I picked up (clearly cut on both ends). So I dutifully dropped it. He fumed and fussed. The Cub Cadet took no notice. But I thought I saw it smirk, insolent mechanical devil.
Today is another day! No blotches on our record. Then the phone rings. Husband's deal to get free steamed crab claws is successful. And it arrives: a megalithic box of claws which fills two big garbage bags!
And we pick and crack and crack and pick. We freeze some (above), eat some, give some to the neighbors, and let the cat have a cut. Resolute in our desire to never look at another crab claw, we look forward to the next test of our competency/senility and what things may come on Waverly Lane.
Picture here if you will a purple VW bug, at once a pristine, nostalgic, and overstated emblem of egotistic eccentricity. Whew, that statement hurt as much as childbirth. Meanwhile, enjoy a picture from my garden.
It was a woeful admission, requiring a healing remark to repair his sagging confidence. It seems he forgot to reattach the fuel line and then asked Howard to start the grapenut, which began spewing gasoline. He saw it and shouted to turn it off averting disaster. We are grateful that friend Howard, who is hard of hearing, got the message.
I comforted Husband with the reminder of my mega-mistake of the day before, which entailed another misadventure with the infamous Cub Cadet. I felt inspired to cut grass, get some sunshine, and smell the wild onions. So off I go on the Cub Cadet. I no sooner pass the pumphouse than there are pieces of flying extension cord passing on either side. It seems I drove over an electrocution trap laid by Husband, who was by this time running and shouting, "Drop it," meaning the section of cord I picked up (clearly cut on both ends). So I dutifully dropped it. He fumed and fussed. The Cub Cadet took no notice. But I thought I saw it smirk, insolent mechanical devil.
Today is another day! No blotches on our record. Then the phone rings. Husband's deal to get free steamed crab claws is successful. And it arrives: a megalithic box of claws which fills two big garbage bags!
And we pick and crack and crack and pick. We freeze some (above), eat some, give some to the neighbors, and let the cat have a cut. Resolute in our desire to never look at another crab claw, we look forward to the next test of our competency/senility and what things may come on Waverly Lane.
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