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Alley sweep/cleanup dealie

Yep, county's neighborhood cleanup trailer:
we reserved it and used it.

Had not seen one of these, it's a hoop to attach one's leaf/trash bag to so it
stays open while things are being picked up.  Who said innovation was dead?

Ladybug painted on trailer.  Alarming!

Dadaist shenanigans of the kids across the street

The kids across the street adore Rafe, to a girl.  Last night they came over to adulate and they brought with them a bird cage full of rocks:

I chuckled at their seemingly nonsensical gambit.  "I'm on to you guys!" I parried. "This is a takeoff of [Duchamp's] Why Not Sneeze, Rose Selavy?":

Good natured joshing then followed, with Lexi (age 4.5) saying that Tristan Tzara was just as important as Duchamp, Lissa plumping for Hugo Ball  and Leah flatly asserting, to my astonishment, that I was wrong, that Warhol was more important than Duchamp, just for sheer cross-culture breadth of influence!  This made me cross, naturally!

Then a raccoon was noticed up by the attic dormer windows across the street and all was forgiven.



A Sunday Stroll

A red, red rose around the block.

Kelley in full au pair mode.  Saucy!

Eine luftballoon.

When my mother-in-law says "Plant!,"

...I say "How deep?"

Bonfire on the heath

Illegal or not, some neighbors burned some brush and it smelled good:















Plus, these young folks (who are not from here, so have no idea about 70's after-school kids' show Clubhouse 22 and its eponymous mascot) have this nine-month old yclept Duffy!