Houses and Stinkfish, Number 3
What's this all about? Start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start).
Today's house:
If you look closely at the left-hand side of the pictures, you can see the frame of an awning above the furniture on the porch. But there is no canvas on the frame which means the awning isn't really providing any shade. Not that you need to provide your own shade here in Michigan.
It is fairly windy here which means the fancy breezeway between the garage and the house gets a good workout.
Here's our stinkfish:
1976: The Bicentennial of the United States. I was a young teen at that time. The buildup the nation gave to July 4, 1976 was outsized. For two years leading up to the Big Date, we got a nightly Bicentennial Minute wherin celebrities gave us minute-long American history lessons.
For me, the whole Bicentennial countdown was more about fashion and style. Red, white and blue were everywhere. I had red, white and blue sheets and towels. "But John," I can hear you asking, "wasn't it just a few years before that people were arrested for 'flag desecration' because they wore red, white and blue apparel?" They certainly were, dear reader! It was this seeming paradox that led Emerson to pen that "“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
The fear of flag desecration did not stop me from painting my dresser red, white and blue. Nor did it stop me from convincing my poor, besieged mother from installing red carpet (shag, natch!) in my bedroom to "match" the walls I painted blue while leaving the ceiling white. Even then, my aesthetic senses were finely tuned.
Did anything else happen in 1976? You bet!
- The supersonic Concorde began regular transatlantic service.
- The Swine Flu outbreak began.
- Rashida Jones was born.
- Mao Zedong dies.
- Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
- The Number One song in the US was Shake Your Booty by K.C and the Sunshine Band.
Say what you like a world were Rashida Jones is alive and Franco is dead is a better world than the reverse.