Places of Business

Misc. Shots & One Update

Update:  The professor of poetry and NT Greek a few days after our late breakfast at the same place.  

While Out & 'Aboot'

 'Queue The Grind'

 'Inside For Out'

(Glenn's Diner 

1820 W Montrose Ave Chicago IL 60613)

 'Dubble Bubble Out'

(found lying in the dust at park baseball field)

'Big Mouth Rupert'

People At Work

Topography

Sunday Funnies: Dank House Keeping

One of my uncles would 'hire' Brother and me to do some kind of job around his house.  It only happened the couple years, he was between wives, and each time we were hired to paint his garage and the trim around his house.  I realized he was in sore need to looking after when he simply left a little note over the guest toilet saying, "Jiggle the handle.  Dank house keeping."  That being said, I don't know what happened to this week and find I'm without a new Sunday Funnies photo...and so my apologies on my own version of 'dank housekeeping'.






From Summer 2010

This week's bad joke:
What did the watermelon say to the honey dew?
Too bad we cantaloupe!

Mothers & Fathers

I know I've posted one of these rather recently, but felt it needed to be included in this post. 

'Last Moment Before Shelter'

Homeless family making their way to evening check-in.

'The Best Seat'

'City of Big Shoulders I & II'

with memories of sitting on my father's shoulders.

Little Faces

Late Breakfast with the Old Man

My friend, the professor of poetry and New Testament Greek, hasn't been up to par of late.  Felt chipper enough for a late breakfast yesterday evening...almost back to his stoic self...

Two In One & Yoga Origami

It is surprising how much time it takes to fold 200 sheets of paper into 200 origami balloons (or the amount of money for origami paper for that matter).  After making a paper balloon for the first time, I realized the hole in the balloon would fit perfectly over a twinkle light bulb...and the crafty bug got me, and got me good.  Even better it's the kind of busy work that can allow the body and mind to really focus, one wrong fold can mess up the whole...but fold correctly every time and all works out quite nicely!

 200 origami balloons

 So worth the tired fingers!

 A couple of recommendations if wanting to give it a go.  1.) Don't chintz on origami paper.  It's worth the price to have a more pliable sheet of paper for folding, and blowing up the balloon.  2.)  Where you can chintz is in the strand of twinkle lights. I bought a strand for a few bucks at the local Target (which would be in the garden/lawn section for this time of year).  The balloons can simply be slipped over the bulb.  The caveat...same rule applies for the strand of origami balloons as for a live Christmas tree.  Don't leave the lights on for a long period of time or over night.  Doing so creates a possible fire hazard.  

Origami Balloon Instructions

WHITE Is A Color Too!

Sunday Funnies: Literal Translation

This week's bad joke (probably my new favorite one too):


A priest, a rabbi, and a Muslim walk into to a bar.  The bar tender says, what is this, a joke?

No People Eaters But We've Got PURPLE