Friend: “Nice tub! Just another day in the life of a plumber!”
Me: “Okay, but is that Tub A or Tub B?”
Friend:
Me: “(Tub B or not Tub B — that is the question.)”
Friend:
A plumber friend posted a picture on Facebook of a bathtub he installed.
“The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel,” Louis Daguerre, circa 1824
Oil on canvas.
That 70’s joe.
“After a Rain,” Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1879
Oil on canvas.
Thanks, Gang.
I just wanted to thank all of you guys for the nice birthday wishes — both online and off.
They came in handy. I can’t believe how old I am. 51! At this point, there are people walking around who are A HALF-CENTURY OLD who are actually YOUNGER than me. Egads.
(She could always just listen to audio from a Trump rally.)
“On Valaam Island,” Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1873
Oil on canvas.
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells,
dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.
I want to do with you
what spring does with the cherry trees.
from Pablo Neruda’s “Every Day You Play”
Photo credit: JRennocks, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo of tram in Silesia, Poland, by Oleksandr Dede, 2022
