Do I dare admit how worried I am that so many of you thought the knitted object my 16-pound cat was playing in yesterday was thong underwear or an athletic supporter?! 😮 Ye gads! I’m sure sending knitted underwear to elephantiasis victims would be noble, but…
And boo-hiss to bloglines for taking over 12 hours to pick up yesterday’s post! 🙁 I’ll just note that Google Reader tends to pick up my posts in less than 30 minutes…
If I hadn’t gotten divorced after a year of marriage and a year of separation, today would be my 19th wedding anniversary. Yup – that boggles my mind, too.
In a shocking twist, we actually had nice weather this past weekend. True, we did have a ginormous thunderstorm Saturday night, but no trees blew over on my condo, no tornado or flooding left me homeless, and no hail damage was added to my car.
During the lovely day on Saturday, I spent some time wandering around the neighborhood. Not that my picture is perfectly straight, but can you see the crazy leaning light pole of Pisa action going on there?! Here’s hoping the power wires keep the pole upright.
Is it just the Twin Cities that have these giant Adirondack chairs around? I’ll have to share some pictures of the others I see regularly.
This mobile is in front of the same building as the “Three Bears” chairs above.
I think May’s favorite part of the weekend was any time we weren’t having thunder and lightning…
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem
Watch out for the “cat” on the book case, May!
People’s minds must just be in the gutters or something, eh?
May knows how to relax! You have some very strange things in your neighborhood.
I switched to Google reader last night and I’m just about getting used to it.
May looks so comfy! I fancy a snooze in one of those giant chairs.
YEAH for good weather weekends! May’s so cute when she’s sleeping. I love how sweet and innocent kitties look when they’re asleep 🙂
I would have been married 14 years this past March! Yikes!
Heh, those chairs gave me a good chuckle. And May? Atticus is right there with you.
I had a meeting in that building with the chairs a few weeks ago. When giving directions, which were long and complicated, NOT ONCE did the man say, oh, it’s the building with the GIANT adirondack chairs in front of it. When we arrived my coworker and I nearly fell over laughing. Just a numbered address. No giant green chairs.
That gigantor chair totally cracks me up! We don’t have those here at all . . . I sure wish we did!
Chris- So, you were a child bride, like myself?
We were driving somewhere when the kids were little, and passed by a giant chair. FC asks my son “who do you think that chair belongs to?” and he says “no-one, they’re advertising furniture”- and FC says “no, no- it belongs to a Giant. He says Fee Fi Fo Fum, I need a place to put my bum”-
I almost fell out of the car laughing. THAT’s what I’ve been married to for 21 years.
We’ve had crazy storms here too. Last night was Julia’s spring concert, under a pavilion – and as soon as we got there it started to thunder and hail. It was insane.
The Denver Public Library has this giant red chair. http://livedowntowndenver.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/img_0404.JPG No crazy storms here. I think we’re done for the year.
I’ve never seen giant chairs like that before. I wonder how many knitters could fit up there at once? I must admit that I too thought of a thong when I saw the picture… I’m so embarrassed. I hope the weather calms down.
Hate to admit I was one of them, but I was…just didn’t mention it. Mind is almost certainly in the gutter…
THOSE are HUGE chairs! I love it!
And Mayhem? What did you do to be so tuckered out, hon?
(((hugs)))
I still think it’s a bit on the chilly side but I’ll take the sunshine anyday. Happy noniversary!!
those chairs kick ass, i want some now
Awww.. I love sleeping kitty photos! I found the coolest cat tower when I was out with MIL one day but I didn’t want to spend the money on it and find out that Ms. Kitty wouldn’t use it.
The sunshine this weekend was a very needed sight for my previously rain soaked self. Now if I could just get my act together & pitch the tent in the back yard to get it dried out…..
I had no idea about the 19 year thing – our 18th anniversary is in October. We have many oversized Adirondacks in EP – There’s an old guy who makes them – there’s one by the Middle School and another by the Lacrosse fields. I like the red one best.
I wish we had some of those huge adirondack chairs, but alas, nope.
That leaning lightpole would make me walk on the other side of the street.
and thank you for today’s laugh… people thought your bag was thong underwear?? hahahahahahah… now that would have been a totally scary image to have a pair that large…
Hee – I love the little kitty peeking over the top of the lamp.
Hey! I just drove by those chairs on Sunday on my way to Animal Humane Society for an adoption event. 🙂
As for the oversized things; I’ve seen oversized fish in Wisconsin and a 2-story tall corkscrew in Michigan. I don’t know that I have seen any other giant chairs though.
I want one of those chairs! The excercise needed to get into it would totally excuse a long nap. Unfortunately, we can’t all be like Mayhem, who needs no excuse to nap. What were all the birds doing while she was snoozing?!
Those chairs — normal sized ones — got their start as an urban renewal/employment program, I think. IIRC, the program had teenagers on the North Side build and sell them back in the 1970s (1980s?). I used to see the light green Adirondack chairs in back yards all over the city. That program is long gone, but happily the oversized chairs live on.
I think that chair might be bigger than my house! If I could only get one of those in my backyard… That would REALLY piss off those nosy neighbors behind us. 😉
Well, this may not be a giant Adirondack Chair, but it’s a big chair, nonetheless.
http://flickr.com/photos/noolieknits/343943864/in/set-72157594210218170/
It’s in town neighboring ours 🙂
Hmm, gigantic Adirondack chairs? That is a new one to me.
I took a VERY QUICK trip to Mpls. for Father’s Day, and the weather was just so amazingly beautiful! I spent nearly the whole time outside — on the patio or deck or out for walks or playing with dogs. Heavenly!
Hooray for no handknit thongs.
Thong underwear? [scampers off to read those comments]
Yay for good weather! Did you KIP at all?
Happy un-Anniversary!
Hey Cris, you want to think of truly mind-bending? March 16 was Michael’s and my 40th anniversary!!!!! Now that doesn’t seem possible at all. After all, I’m only 16 or 20 or something, certainly not 62, no, no, certainly not!
I wish we could get some of your rain. We are SOOOOOO dry right now. Although rain is forcast for the rest of the week. Yeah right, I’ll believe it when I see it.
Talking of black kitties. Mine, Piggy Sue is sitting in my lap right now watching me type. She thinks Chaos is cute but a little small since she’s a big girl too. She thought the kits were playing with their Daddy’s BVD’s. I’ll have to explain that they don’t have a Daddy with drawers to play with. Mine like their Dad’s, and the socks I knit him too. Oh well.
Take care and try not to float off down the Mississippe.
Ann Carpenter and the Furherd in Dallas
Happy UnAnniversary!
All of our Adirondack chairs are the normal size. Leaning light poles make me nervous.
I would be so afraid to walk under that power pole. What if it fell ove right when I was udner it? With my luck, it is entirely possible.
I don’t understand the whole “lets put something big out onthe street as decoration for the tourists to look at” impulse that cities have. Toronto had Giant moose sculptures all over for a while. A town in Itlay had giant flowerpots…
i so did not think those were thong underwear, lol. Too funny though. Those giant adirondack chairs are great!! (19 years yikes!) the 19th of this month is my 19th anniversary of getting kicked in the chest by a horse!
I believe those chairs resulted from the Green Chair Project back in the early 90’s.
Love the pics of your neighborhood. This month is the 20th anniversary of my moving to USA.
The 17th is my un-anniversary, too! I shudder to think it would have been 34 years. Of course, I was a child bride .