So this is a weird one. I used the Seek app on my phone to identify a dead grasshopper in the parking lot at work. Seek is an app that identifies animals and plants. It wasn’t until I was getting ready to delete the photo that I noticed something strange. There is a small cricket of some sort nuzzling the neck of the other insect. Either it is sucking out the juices, or it is mourning its large friend. Either way…
It looks like the sun came up and went down a few times.
I asked my wife if we could order pizza, and then asked her to tell the pizza people to put extra little tables… those things that keep the box lid off your cheese… in the box. And she didn’t even ask me why I wanted them. When I hinted about her asking why I wanted the extra tables, she said she didn’t need to know why I wanted them. That is how used to my crack squirrels she is.
I wanted them as drying stands for when I put varnish on the rocks, if you are more curious than my wife.
But my new definition of love is: when you know somebody so well that you just aren’t even curious about why they would ask for extra tiny plastic tables.
And you remember that rotary engraving/carving tool you got for Christmas…
And you think, yeah, I know, I have a million other art projects I am working on…
But it would be fun to just free-hand some art on a few rocks, you tell yourself…
Well, maybe just a few, you concede begrudgingly…
And the next thing you know, you are looking for rocks wherever you go…
And the ideas get weirder and weirder…
And then you start painting them, which you find out makes them look worse than just carving them, but you try to explain that if you just carve them, they are only really visible until you blow the rock dust out of the carving…
And besides, you think they are sort of cute, you know, to just place out in the garden…
But you figure, well, I could try carving some really deep, or just put paint in the carving lines…
So you start looking for more rocks wherever you go…
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