Monday, September 19, 2011

Lady being lady

You find a few gems when you're sweeping up the cutting room floor.

Somebody thought it was pretty cool when we had a lazy weekend breakfast on the back porch instead of at the dining table. Yeah, we try hard to impress.

This mechanical horse may have a name, but it's known as the Hooley's horse. It sits outside a restaurant on Main Street in downtown Stillwater, but its history is as deep as its paint is faded. This thing for years -- decades, probably -- was parked at the entrance to Hooley's, a ma-and-pa grocery store in Stillwater. I remember riding on it when I was a kid. A ride was a penny then. Now, Elise needs two shiny quarters to kickstart that ol' steed. She often hitches a ride when she's in town for a visit to the coffeeshop.

 Elise, a flood-swollen river and the Stillwater Lift Bridge.

At the start of Anni's maternity leave, we went on a picnic to the nearby school and playground. Elise likes swings. It was the first time in a long time that I'd been on a swing -- and it kind of shows. More fascinating, though, was the countless cubic yards of shredded mulch they spread instead of sand or wood chips. Odd.
This is also where a little girl we know peed on a tree, but that's a different story.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey, I rode that Horse when I was little & it only a nickle. What a great ride!