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To: Crocodile who wrote (38254)	9/19/1999 9:39:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

I know! What is it about busted statuary? Maybe it's that statuary is supposed to be permanent. "Monumental." Sort of by definition. And then, within the cement of the statue, is the magic supposedly it contains. Like a lion! Not a broken lion. Elves, are not sposed to break. Right? It's like seeing up someone's skirt or something. "Well. Those weren't the magical elves." "We put em through a test." "The lions too." "If the back half breaks off the lion.....well, he won't.....lion." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Besides, I have an unrelated, but related, Bad Confession. I have been working on this kind of nice wall between myself and the neighbors. (Good neighbors; nice people.) And I have to go down this little hill, around that way, on their property, to get to the other side. Which I am welcome to do. Restraining the same hill, at the edge of their driveway and slope, is a stone and concrete wall. Well, I was turning up the hill, with an empty mortar bucket, and I noticed there in the rocks of the wall, a bunch of elves. They're perched. Relaxin. Legs and arms folded. For some reason, I am amused. I can't decide if it's appropriate they're watching me work my butt off; or if I would never, ever, in my life, put something as kooky as that in my kooky yard (an illumination of my own silliness) ~ but, (I'm embarrassed to say this) ~ I had this distinct urge to knock those little elves right off their butts. Then of course, I "saw" them broken; and realized immediately this was not appropriate behavior; to knock someone's elves off their rock wall. Yah; that came crashing in; that Realization. "These are just ceramic elves. Not animated elves. Ceramic elves." Yeah! I had evil thoughts about somebody's ceramic, perching elves. And knocking them off of there would be a little bit too involved, in elfdom. But seeing them broken, like before they ever got out of the gate, in the store-yard back trashcan along the fence there, that's kind of funny. Know what I mean? Even THEY have losers.

To: Crocodile who wrote (38254)	9/19/1999 9:43:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I've been having fun looking at lawn ornaments, myself, now that I am going to have my own lawn. Well, I haven't made a special trip to the lawn ornament store, we've been looking at fruit trees and fish pond equipment, but the lawn ornaments are there, the Roman and Greek statuary, the mirror balls, the lawn gnomes, the frogs, hedgehogs, foxes, birdbaths, sundials, stepping stones that look like slices of log, whatever the mind can imagine, the hand can make, in lumpy concrete. The children are clamoring for lawn ornaments, they find them irresistable. I've told them only one tacky lawn ornament each, so please be selective, and they just can't make up their minds. Ben is leaning towards a semi-submerged dragon, and I am sure you've seen the semi-submerged crocodiles. Three parts, head, body and tail, spread them out and they look like a reptile floating in the lawn. Chris would like a Chinese lantern. I have yet to see a lawn ornament that calls to me, although sometimes I swear the cobalt blue gazing ball is whispering my name.