Wednesday, October 3, 2018

UP AGAINST IT?

I was looking at the concrete block wall in our back yard yesterday as the rain fell throughout the day and wondering . . .


. . . is this how that little Dutch boy felt
 when he put his finger in the dike?


But the monk in the corner protected us and no action was required on my part.


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  1. Get SWMBO to work on another painting STAT

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  3. The part of that story no one tells you is that young Piet in doing his dike plugging duty wasn't actually missed by anyone at home, until three months went by, and by then all that was left of him was a skeleton alongside the dike, one bony finger still plugging the hole.

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  4. At first, i thought the monk was water pouring in through the wall

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  5. "Dike" used to be a slang term for a gay woman. I hope you were not using the word in that sense Mr C!

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  6. YP - I was not and my wife says the female slang term was spelled "dyke".

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  7. Good thing that's not a flood wall along the Mississippi!

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  8. I'm sure any rain at all in your neck of the woods seems unusual enough to be potentially threatening!

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  9. I'm sorry, but your monk looks like he has seen his better days, eh? Maybe get a Buddha statue for the next round of moisture. Covering all the bases, so to speak.

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