Jul 8, 2020
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
One of these seals is MUCH larger than the other. You’ll see “the other” in the second photo if you really look for it. TLP found the perfect spot to place this painted rock!
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered
One of these seals is MUCH larger than the other. You’ll see “the other” in the second photo if you really look for it. TLP found the perfect spot to place this painted rock!
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream!
Did screaming get you anything as a kid? Not me. Well, other than being sent to my room to cool down, nothing. I certainly didn’t get more ice cream by screaming for it! In fact, if the ice cream truck happened to come to my neighborhood in those days, my mom would remind me that we had perfectly good home-made frozen orange juice popsicles available in the freezer at no cost. Yum! Yeah, right, not yum when compared with actual ice cream. The silver lining there though, is that now, as an adult, on a diet, I can appreciate having a little bit more discipline because I didn’t always get everything I wanted, even if I learned how to ask nicely.
It’s Not Easy Being Green
Today we’ve got an alligator, a dinosaur and a sleestak (from Land of the Lost). They’re all creatures you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley or in broad daylight! Unless they’re painted on rocks, in which case the threat is pretty much nonexistent. Whew!
TLP introduced me to the whole sleestak thing; I never saw Land of the Lost. He does a great imitation of the noise those characters made.
This was supposed to be...
...the Toyota Racing Development logo or something like that, from a sticker that I saw on a vehicle in my neighborhood. The next time I walked by that vehicle, I realized I was way off. Oh well! The rock was perfect for what I painted.
If There’s a Song About Basketball...
...I can’t remember it right now. But I think TLP did a great job painting this one. It won’t bounce, but it looks pretty legit!
What is it? What is it? Open it!
Well duh, it’s just a rock. But - my birthday was about 10 days ago, and I just got a really cool birthday present today from TLP! Some things are worth the wait, but I’m not going to tell what he got for me.
Happy birthday to anyone else out there who IS actually celebrating a birthday today! I hope you received everything you wanted, or at least that you had a really wonderful day.
Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky
The song that inspired that headline was actually written about a true story, of which Frank Zappa was a part. According to Wikipedia, of course!
For the water-themed rock, TLP added some iridescence by using a glittery blue nail polish that I recently bought. I thought it’d look cool on my nails, but nail polish with glitter is always so much more difficult to remove, that it might be relegated to rock-painting usage from now on. This rock kinda makes me think of being on a Caribbean cruise, which, for all we know, may not be possible again for several years after the pandemic.
Say I’m the Only Bee in your Bonnet
That’s a line from “Birdhouse in your Soul” by They Might Be Giants. Remember them? (Ever hear of them?) I don’t think this painting by TLP is actually a bee, but that was the only song that popped into my head for a headline. He did an awesome job painting this one, anyway! Speaking of insects, last time TLP and I were in New England, we experienced an abundance of mosquitoes, and returned to the west coast with itchy red spots that weren’t chicken pox. There just are a lot fewer annoying insects out west. Yay!