What is it

what is it

Is it a sculpture of the Loch Ness monster?

That concrete garden path edging after you've changed the path. Now it's lawn art.

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driftwood from the coast set up to look like a really cool flying snake?

Ahhhh, I was going to say Loch Ness - time zones - unfair advantage.

Anyone remember the beanie and cecil show? It looks like cecil!

Mutant Slug!

I want to know what it is! It's really striking in posture and threatening stance and expression! I think a driftwood bear-scare yard art from the coast.

Beanie and Cecil - hadn't thought of them in years. Actually, I think I found them a bit boring. did they ever do anything.

Now Gerald McBoingBoing - I remember him as being very adventurous (and in trouble). something about a tuba. What was his dogs name?

This is my hubby's great catch. We went to Neah Bay one summer at the tip. he found this pice of drift wood. Great mighty hunter......

But Cecil was a decent & kind sea-serpent, and should have had a more discriminating side-kick: Beanie was always a trifle foolish.
Who is Gerald McBB? When and where was this?
I don't remember this cartoon from the 50's, but that was a very long time ago...

We carried, dragged it for almost 2 Mile's to the truck. He had to have it and he was bound and determined to take it home. Dam near kill us both.

:)

We got it to the truck. but did'nt know if it would fit or how to get it on it . after almost breaking my hand, we got on the top of the truck. and headed home.We got pulled over by the police, said someone called them to say we where stealing a whale bone. When he looked at it , he laugh, and said it was steal illagle to take driftwood but sence he saw how much trouble we hade on getting it on the truck, and my bandage hand he let us have it.

What a great find, and heroic effort to claim it. We had a friend who found and dragged a whale jaw from the beach back to his truck.

Enjoy your serpent!

This is he's new home. on a island in the back yard. He has been taken out to get his weather treatment. this is a old pic can find the new ones where the plants are bigger. I thought it be a idea of what you can do with strange stuff.

Hope he did'nt get in trouble.

Tillys - wonderful story! And real he-man stuff! (and willing he-woman!) I love the pictures of your husband - however, I have decided I can never ever relocate to the PNW - I am just trying to picture dear dear husband amongst all those great outdoors guys. Hmmmm - architypical professor meets great outdoor guys. Poor great outdoors guys - he does bar-b-cue (largely because he is a closet pyromaniac), well he bbq in a very Englishy way, would he get any points for that. (I have seen my brothers bbq, there is little comparision). No, nil points - hmmmm, alas.

Gerald McBoing Boing is one of my favourite early 'story' memories - (that and my golden book that read 'munch munch munch like a goat out to lunch') http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_McBoing-Boing if you haven't seen them they are a real classic animation - just brillant, and a wonderful characterization of the child, although I am sure they would pathologize him now. Do try to get a copy of the cartoons - I watched them again a few years ago, and still found them charming (a little disturbing in light of diagnosis these days), but funny.

Oh, Tilly, the story itself was really interesting but, to illustrate it with your photos the way you did, that was magnificent! Instead of reading along, digesting the words from everyone, I found myself skipping to your next segment and picture to see what was happening in this worthy saga. Your sea serpent or sea snake, don't know which, seems to have found himself a lovely home in your garden bed and you have even been thoughtful enough to provide him with company. My garden contains two amusing frogs, a toad that ribbits at you as you pass by -- until I get annoyed and take the batteries out, and a lovely turtle. I got him at Michael's thinking he had moss on him and could hardly wait for the next rain. Did you ever think you would hear (read) anyone who lives in the PNW saying such a thing? Unfortunately, it wasn't moss it was just some sort of flocking that turns green in the rain. I do have moss, I could fill him with dirt and grow moss on him. I am thinking about it. I should take his picture and let you all decide whether he looks good as he is or if he would look more like a PNW turtle with some moss, not only running down his north side but all over his shell.

Thanks again for a wonderful and beautifully illustrated story, Tilly!

Phyllis in Surrey, B.C., Canada

Like I said it was the he man find I think now how the whole thing was funny at the time, driving through towns with this thing tied to the top of the truck. But he loves it so, he wants to get a solar lighthouse to put on his island, I need to ask him if he ever gave it a name. what would be a good one???? Cecil or Gerald. Have to laugh, I have not showed him my tread yet this is going to be fun.

would like to find some of those movies sounds neat. grew up with beanie & Cecil
or my little brother can't remember which.

I thought when I started it and just wrote the words, It would of sounded dull, I wouldn't have like it as much.
have to have pics in it.

Tilly, you have made my day - I am just chuckling away!!!

Laurie, move here anyway - we'll help change your professor hubby into a he-man professor hubby!!! Or we'll just enjoy him as he is - and we'd sure love to have you here! sigh . . .

Murmur, aww, thanks. xo, but I am afraid you would have to enjoy him as he is - after 30 years I have surrender changing anything about him.

Tillys, I can hardly wait to hear what your dear he-man husband has to say about all of this. I am already grinning just thinking about it.

As a male 'he man' I too would be so proud of such a unique find. I think it is the perfect example of gardens with a male perspective. IE big rocks, stumps, driftwood all in the understanding that we all are hunter-gathers and we guys miss the gathering around the campfire to brag about our daily conquests. Hrrrrrr Hrrrrr!

When I told him about my thread he he just chuckled ......Then said " Glad to hear there is more people out there Who like the strange things we find. more nature
less machines and less people so we can enjoy nature, and little fantasy thown in.
But he still wouldn't name it,
He says he's not going to name it, until he finds out what sex it is.
This could be a long wait, maybe it might have babies.
But he did say He injoyed everyones replies, I think he liked that the most, gave him a little boost in manly dept. I printed the whole thing for him to read.
Tilly

LOL!! I love it! Your man is a person after my own heart, Tillysrat! I'm afraid I can entirely relate to his goal of getting that piece of driftwood back to the truck come heck or high water. I didn't know it was illegal to take driftwood. Were you on a reservation or something? Glad the PO who stopped you was a reasonable guy. The garden monster is awesome!
Laurie, I'm sure a simple trip to the NW would bring out the shadowy 'he-man-nature-guy-campfire-spitter' in your professor spouse. We'll hook him up with Soferdig and Tilly's husband and they can show him how to create the balance of 'manly man'/'brainy man'/ 'artistic man'. Then the three of these brawny guys can go hunt an elk or something (or at least SAY they are hunting) , dress in woodland branches to blend in, pee in the woods, and fail to shave or bathe for several days. They will return to civilization feeling much more themselves in every way! I'm sure that when your delightful spouse returns home he will be more than dissatisfied with the barbecue he currently owns. Better make room for the larger one right now!! LOL!!

I have to laugh but I don't see my He-man hunting elk or BBQ ing, but he does pee it the woods tho . and loves nature. His comment was when I showed him, what you had said; Was " this is my refuge from over population. Nature is beautiful and tranquil, it is God's little acre of peace and quite. actually I think Laurie's hubby and mine would get along just fine mine he has a professor type attitude sometimes. drives me nuts.
I'm still laughing I just can't see the 3 of them doing this, would love to see it I would be the fly in bushes with a camera I"am a camera bug that would be to fun.
Tilly

Definitely a fly in the buses! Definitely! LOL! And I can TOTALLY relate to his thing about over-population. We've lived in Lakewood for 21 years and it's getting to the point where it's crowded all the time. And there is ALWAYS terrible traffic.

Know what you mean, I comute to Lynnwood everyday to go to work. And can't wait to get home. but its starting to grow over here. we must have move around the same time I've been here 21 yrs too.

You guys are starting to see why I left Bellevue and moved to Montana. Oh I find Alaska quite nice too. Well at least in the summer.

Even Whidbey Island is beginning to suffer the pangs and arrows of outrageous fortune. Trees being clear cut, developments with houses practically on top of each other, etc. The only traffic issues are waiting for the ferry, but with more and more people moving over here, it will only get worse (both on the highway and at the ferry terminals).

However, I'm not ready for Montana or Alaska!!

I spent a summer in Montana, had husband with me (his professornish intact). I have to admit that was quiet.

However, we've also spent summers in Kylerhea at the southern end of Skye, West Coast Scotland. We use to stay in the house nearest the turntable ferry (carries 6 cars + walking passengers) - often crosses with less, much less. Sometimes doesn't cross at all because no one is waiting - Ferry goes home at 8 pm during the peak season, and 6 off season (March - April) doesn't go at all between late Sept. and Mid-march. When we use to go up, there were 8 houses in Kylerhea - 1 inhabited all year round, two rented during the summer. The post comes on Tues if the road is passable. There is no television, you can't get a signal. If the weather is right you can get radio. Mobile phones don't work there. The telephone does if it doesn't blow down, get washed down, snowed down, or snap in the freeze. Now that is quiet.

I often commute early in the morning from Kalispell to Great Falls. 4am to 8am and pass about 2 to 5 cars the entire 250mile trip. I always send photos of my commute to my left behind friends in Seattle. Photos of paved highway for 30 miles with nothing on it. They just curse under their breath. I drove from Fairbanks to Denali last saturday am and didn't pass any cars in 117 miles of forestland. Though that was 4am to 6am in the morning. Crystal clear Denali was visible all weekend while I peddled my bike through the grandeur of Denali National Park. Lots of Grizzlies, Cariboo, Moose, Fox, Ptarmigan, and unfortunatly Bus trains of tourists.

owwww, Soferdig - even in London the streets are quiet at 4 a.m. - maybe not that quiet, but definately not busy. I don't think 4 am counts in quiet competitions. 6-8 a.m. does - you get points for that part.

Soferdig, how do you ever stay awake between 4:00 and 8:00 AM???

Here in Montana we never get tired. Working is play and play is never tiring. (Lot of bull) and I sip on my Starbucks at all the roadside stands. (LOB) I drink lots of coffee and then work a 10 hour day from 8 to 6pm when I get there. It beats getting over a day earlier.

Ah, yes. Caffeine. I should have known!! I get delirious when I rely too much on caffeine to stay awake. I fear I would be parked on the side of the road snoozing away.
I'll remember your 'play is never tiring' routine next time I am completely tuckered out from doing landscaping work. LOL!! Maybe my body will listen this time!