As my family prepares to welcome our second son into the world, I will be taking a hiatus from creating more complex artwork and blog-posting. In the meantime, please enjoy this awkward conversation I had recently with some grandparents at a local playground!
It takes all types, I guess…
Some things are too hard to resist.
I came down with quite the doozy of a cold this week and have thus been out for the past several days, unable to post. Don’t worry! The saga is now back from its hiatus, with more hilarity and hi jinx for your enjoyment.
Of course I asked….it just wasn’t until later that evening!
…Although a chicken roll call would be most amusing.
I promise the rest of this story isn’t just a bunch of bad puns.
But I had to get that one in, given the subject matter.
Remember my last post about the September Strange?
I wasn’t kidding.
Starting today, I will episodically post this saga, wherein a fowl has found herself adrift in suburbia, and the adventure that ensues.
This story is totally true (with some added punchy humor, of course.)
This little china cup, odd though it may be, embodies everything I associate with my Grandma. In fact, if I had to choose only one thing out of all of her many collections of objects (for she had many tchotchkes too numerous to recount here, from beer steins with painted faces lining the top of a china cabinet to a small collection of glass elephants, trunks rearing up at the ever-silent, antique cuckoo clock hanging in the hallway, its tiny bird patiently waiting to reanimate once again) I would choose this cup over anything else.
We didn’t get to visit that often since Grandma lived so far from us, so when we did it was all the more special, and I like to think she marked the occasion as well, letting me drink my morning milk from the china “milkman cup” as she called it.
I don’t know much about the cup, (or the whole set, for that matter, for I own it in its entirety now) other than that it was made in Japan, possibly in the 50’s or 60s, but it doesn’t matter that much to me whether it’s vintage or antique, worth a lot of money or chump change: the memories it holds would fill a hundred cups of its kind.
It also makes a pretty rad little still life.
Long Days Drawn Out 