Concrete in Bloom

I was looking at old posts today, reading about summers past, when the back yard became an extension of the house, and especially the summer of 2004, when the street was torn up and excavated so deeply that we could walk along with the curb at eye level.

It's summer again, and the back yard is living space again, but with a difference. Waldy's friend Lisa is camping out there with her puppy, to facilitate training him.

There's fresh pavement again, too, but this time just a few slabs of the sidewalk on the Tenth Street side of the house. Kathe and I rounded up some 2006 pennies and covered them in silicone caulk, and butried them under the gravel. Now there's fresh concrete on top of them, and most likely nobody will ever see them. But maybe....

Maybe when the time comes to break up those slabs and replace them, someone will happen to turn up one of those pennies, brush of fthe crumbling remnants of silicone, and find a bright, shiny 2006 Lincoln cent.

Maybe they'll pass it around among the crew, and one of them will say, "I think this was put here on purpose."

And someone else will look thoughtful and say something like, "People were very religious back then."

Elsewhere in the news, George W. Bush remains impeachable. Let's get on it.

And here's why: http://peacetakescourage.cf.huffingtonpost.com/animations/wwjd.html

//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Yes."\\