I had lunch supervision duty yesterday and found a mysterious list on the floor. It’s very small. The left side is about the size of a quarter. I have no idea what it could be. What’s interesting is that under certain circumstances, this list could have been generated by me. Is it a message from myself? What do the colors mean?
At school, we take a few minutes at the end of lunch each day to go outside. Those who want to can run around on our turf field for seven minutes or so. It’s nice to get some fresh air in the middle of the day. I had lunch duty yesterday, and I was one who supervised the outside people, while my partner teacher stayed in.
At the edge of our field is a water spigot. The pipe feeding into it has been having some problems, and has created a giant sinkhole full of water. The water is beautifully clear. If I was thirsty, I would think it would be very tempting to just stick my head in and drink.
But on closer inspection, there was something really weird about the hole: It has a chair in it… a full-sized, non folding chair. It’s upside down and is sunk so deeply that only a little bit of one leg is sticking out. Just how deep is this hole?
People leave trash in the bank parking lot next to my house all the time. Most of it blows in my pond. I’m at the point where if I ever saw someone throw something on the ground in the lot, I’d say something to them.
But a couple weeks ago, someone left something unusual:
It’s a pair of cotton gloves! That was weird, but not unprecedented. I’ve seen articles of clothing before. I often leave stuff like that lying on the ground in case the owner comes back for it.
But then a week later, someone left these on the sidewalk that leads from the parking lot to my door:
Another pair of gloves? Now it’s getting really strange. Are these glove-leavers paying homage to my garden? Is it a message from the Japanese Illuminati? Is it an insult?
I wore a tie yesterday that has always been a mystery to me. Usually people don’t say anything about it, but two separate people made comments about it yesterday, so I had to post about it. The mystery is this: There are pictures stitched into the fabric, but the pattern is so wild you can’t see what the pictures are. I suspect they’re a drawing in the style of Sunday-morning comic strips. They also may have a wartime theme of some kind – I think one of the images is of a paratrooper.
The possible parachute picture:
But this image looks like a couple sitting and having a picnic?
If you look at the images from an angle, it sometimes helps:
The tops of the heads of the couple are obscured in the previous pictures. Here’s another section of the tie where you can see their heads:
Maybe now that I have pictures of this tie, I could fiddle with them and digitally remove the blue stripes or something… Hmmm… But until I figure something out, this tie will remain a mystery.
I went outside yesterday morning and noticed my pond looked cleaner. The clumps of algae that had overwintered were mostly gone, and some of the trash was picked out of the water. Someone cleaned my pond a little. Interesting.
It seems like a breach of etiquette to clean someone else’s pond without asking, but I didn’t really mind it. In fact, if the person would go all the way and clean out the bottom of the pond, that would be nice. But at the risk of seeming ungrateful, if the Phantom would do more cleaning, I would have one request: Please pile the algae and trash in one spot so I can bag it up and get rid of it.
Exhibit One:
Exhibit Two:
