Before and After
Posted on 13/04/07 16:34
Its that time of year when every other commercial is telling us to get in shape for the summer. Now they even have Valerie Bertonelli in on the act...Its just a matter of time before she is looking great, but forever her 'before' photo will be attached to her 'after'. I met a nice lady one time who actually carried her 'before' photo in her purse. She had gastric bypass and was very thin...hard to believe she had weighed well over two hundred pounds. I would think one would want to tear up every 'before' photo, negative and everything else that reminded you of the life you tried so hard to change. That's just me, I guess. When something reminds me of a bad situation, I have no problem with a trip to the dumpster with it. Even then, I can't completely get away from it. Seems my mind is like a hard drive from a Law and Order episode; every once in a while the forensic experts are digging up something I tried to delete but couldn't.
Speaking of dumpsters...aren't they great...even better though is a dump. When I was a kid, my friend and I would go and visit an unofficial community dump to play in the mounds of crap. There were ropes hanging from trees that encircled the junk and you could swing from one side to the other. I guess we went looking for stuff, but all I remember is jumping around like an idiot. In East Texas, my Dad had a cabin and there was a dump for all the people in the county. Not sure how they select a dump spot, but this was way down a winding dirt road. At the end was a big pile up junk, usually with something burning a little and some guy in a pickup truck with a bed that had a pile of aluminum cans ten feet high. He had put wire all around the bed and just filled that truck with cans. I wonder if he was collecting or if one day he would sell them. Most recently, Mom and Dad have a cabin in Montana where there are neighborhood dump spots. Every couple days, you pack up all the garbage and head to the dump. These are pretty classy in Montana...they have big containers to throw your stuff into which smashes everything down and a truck comes around and takes it to who knows where. There's a nice guy who watches to make sure you do it right and will even help when something is heavy or awkward. He's there all the time...this is Montana folks and he sits out there in the cold waiting for folks to come and dump there junk. Just think about that the next time you are feeling a bit cold.
Oh right...the title of this entry is Before and After. Here's why...I showed you in my last entry the light pieces for a bathroom and the owner was nice enough to let me photograph the installation...thanks, Sharon!
Here are her fixtures BEFORE...
Here they are AFTER...
Wow...that was really a short entry when I finally got around to the subject at hand...
Dan
Speaking of dumpsters...aren't they great...even better though is a dump. When I was a kid, my friend and I would go and visit an unofficial community dump to play in the mounds of crap. There were ropes hanging from trees that encircled the junk and you could swing from one side to the other. I guess we went looking for stuff, but all I remember is jumping around like an idiot. In East Texas, my Dad had a cabin and there was a dump for all the people in the county. Not sure how they select a dump spot, but this was way down a winding dirt road. At the end was a big pile up junk, usually with something burning a little and some guy in a pickup truck with a bed that had a pile of aluminum cans ten feet high. He had put wire all around the bed and just filled that truck with cans. I wonder if he was collecting or if one day he would sell them. Most recently, Mom and Dad have a cabin in Montana where there are neighborhood dump spots. Every couple days, you pack up all the garbage and head to the dump. These are pretty classy in Montana...they have big containers to throw your stuff into which smashes everything down and a truck comes around and takes it to who knows where. There's a nice guy who watches to make sure you do it right and will even help when something is heavy or awkward. He's there all the time...this is Montana folks and he sits out there in the cold waiting for folks to come and dump there junk. Just think about that the next time you are feeling a bit cold.
Oh right...the title of this entry is Before and After. Here's why...I showed you in my last entry the light pieces for a bathroom and the owner was nice enough to let me photograph the installation...thanks, Sharon!
Here are her fixtures BEFORE...
Here they are AFTER...
Wow...that was really a short entry when I finally got around to the subject at hand...
Dan
Belle wrote:
I saw Valerie for about a minute tonight on the Larry King show... she is still cute and looks pretty good for an 'almost' 50 year old.
Ron and I saw a lamp similar to your blue one on the NBC shopping channel last night, and they were selling it for $229. Even showed the artist working in his studio and he was showing all of the techniques he used to make it. He said it was blue cobalt salamander glass. He had used something on the top that looked like an antique gold lamp finial that was about 3 inches high. It looked pretty good. Got me to thinking, Penny told me once that you were going to put a small TV in Lotus with a tape of you blowing glass. You should do that!