Jester of Grow Damnit comments and submits:
"First off, I have to tell you, I have always loved this place. Especially in the summer, its just beautiful!
Before starting this game, I never realized just how much cool stuff they had!!!
...now I love it even more!"
The once great Zambini Brothers were renown for their guarding and security skills, no one got past a Zambini. And then there was that ugly incident regarding a break-in while the brothers were distracted by a beguiling gnome
After that, the Zambinis can be seen outside a local outhouse... so sad when the great fall
Collection or functional? Why would you hang your rakes outside the barn?
Score (list provided by Jester, my comments are in red)
- sleds: 3 points
- hanging tools (yeah, I am having problems with this but they are outside the barn) 4 points
- milk cans - 2 points
- tree face- 1 point
- rooster silhouette- 1 point
- hanging saw- 1 point
- birdbath- 1 point
- pig statue?- 1 point
- outhouse-1 point (not sure if functional)
- trellis (um functional) 0 points
- sun-1 point
- cupid statue?-1 point (cupid, cherub but no brazen junk display)
- street lamp- 0 points (but cool dragon effect)
- half moon-1 point
- round metal thing w/arrow-1 point (compass?)
- lion guardians- 2 points (sad really)
- stone bench: 0 points (functional)
- cupid statue?-1 point (another one?)
- stone statue behind it- 1 point
- metal trellises with ball- 0 (trellis are functional)
- red gazing ball-1 point
- wagon-1 point
- fallen statue on wagon-1 point
- toad house-1 point (always cute)
- butterfly-1 point
- trellis-0 point
- bigger wagon- 1 point
- brick pedestal/wall?- 0 points (hard scrape are not scored)
- hand statue on top-1 point
- holding a gazing ball- 1 point
- glass something on a metal stick 1 point
- well-1 point
Creativity Bonus
For the regal lions welcoming the guests into the "facilities": 2 points
Total: 35 points
Also valuable suggestion when dealing with the brothers:
I like their front porch. They need a gnome playing a banjo on it. Perhaps a gnome with some teeth missing and it's eyes set real close together.
ReplyDeleteLaura, I have a weakness for stonework on a house. But as far as the banjo picking tooth gapped gnome...why everyone needs one of those.
ReplyDeleteProbably a rake collection. See how well spaced they are and there's that diagonal presentation to make it look more "artsy".
ReplyDeleteThe sign made me smile.
Those look like flying pigs on the street light. Hmm, maybe it is too early and my eyes are not adjusted yet. I like the lions guarding the way to the "facility".
ReplyDeleteNice yard. What about the weather vane on the roof? Is that considered 'functional'? I wouldn't know how use one except to know which way the wind blows.
ReplyDeleteI too was wondering what was on the weather vane. The rakes and sleds did not bother me. I thought that was the nicest thing on the property, along with the stucco sun. Very happy looking.
ReplyDeleteBom, you are probably right, I would be annoying pulling down those rakes every time you wanted to use them.
ReplyDeleteCindy, I had better take another look. Flying pigs is cooler than dragons when it comes to street lamps.
Morning Glory, It is a nice yard and a cute house. I think weather-vanes are functional in that they do what they were designed to do. I feel the same way about sundials.
gwgt, the rakes and sled bother me only in as much as are they functioning. As a display, I think it is attractive.
Jester, did you really try to get points from TRELLIS? Sad...
ReplyDeleteMy grandparents own a porta-potty business, and they have the older ones everywhere. I consider it more than my sanity is worth to find out if they are still "in the business" as it were.
those tools like antique, definitely just hanging there to be looked at and adored.
ReplyDeleteRedgirl hunting and pecking with my phone. So as painful as this is I could not let another minute go by. A port a poddy business!!! This not finished.
ReplyDeleteI didn't quite catch that...too succinct. Can you expand on that? >:D
ReplyDeleteMarguerite, I guess I am tool impaired, as my hubby I am sure he would confirm.
ReplyDeleteredgirl, apparently I talk like a caveman when I try to use my phone. Please expound upon being a port-a-poddy heiress.
Way to be moribund LH. They aren't dead yet...
ReplyDeleteThey own a couple companies...main one is porta-potties. There are nice trailers with stalls and sinks in white and gleaming chrome. There are dusky rose and teal ones with funky mirrors for weddings and family reunions and such. There are pink and blue ones for all your plebeian needs (while you stroll around an event or some such, maybe to lose your cookies to after you rode the tilt-a-whirl one too many times). Then there are the brown and oxidizing-copper-green color ones that they stick on construction sites because no woman would even *think* about sitting on that seat without a bit of hover action.
Then you have the wooden shacks. Watch out for splinters, black widows, and remnants of the early 1920s.
If my current job interest doesn't work out, there's a standing offer for employment at the Family Business. Which is hopelessly intertwined with the Business of the Family, if you get my drift.
To learn more:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pumper.com
well an heiress does not mean anyone is dead just that you are in the line of succession. I would not want to imply that you are waiting for the patriarchs of pottidome to have an early demise.
ReplyDeleteI am quite impressed that there are upscale mobile bathrooms.
Off to view www.pumper.com
Redgirl, next time the RR workers are trying to smooth the humps over the crossings in my rural town and I see the porta-potty on it's own little RR track cart (don't know what it's called), I'll think of you!!!
ReplyDeleteOops, forgot where I was. Rakes! Yes! These are handy for use, and you don't have to put them back in the barn! They're best used at night as defense against the lions when they become live at midnight.
ReplyDeleteThe weapon of choice when discovering the need to fight off cybergnomes.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes. I am now incredibly happy that the merest sight of a porta-potty will make you think of me.
I love that sign for fighting off mountain lions!
ReplyDeleteAwesome!
That is a fun yard!
Hey, did you know Cost** sells garden gnomes now? For 12 bucks you could buy a happy little companion for your garden. I almost bought one.
redgirl, I am full of porta-potty love right now. I will never look at those little public conveniences the same way. You should put out lions in front of your deluxe models. Send that suggestion up to the top of the management ladder.
ReplyDeleteRosey, I love the sign, too. Everyone is on the gnome wagon. They better be careful, nothing good ever comes from overpopulation.
Hrmmm...not sure where my comment went, so I'll post it again:
ReplyDeleteI like that: all potties will have the option of adding yard art accessories to dress up the commode. Lions for the upscale ones, classic gnomes for the nice single units, flamingos for the plebeian ones, bottle tree for the nastay ones, and for the wooden ones? You can choose between a skull and a painted rock.
Just got back from a discount shopping spree - wanted to give you a heads-up that at least my Dollar General store has gnomes! Next time I'll take my camera. Could bring them to life with an accidental video.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Redgirl, didn't see any potties, so didn't think of you.
"Potties always remind me of Redgirl"
ReplyDelete"And why is that, good mistress?"
"Just like it sounds, my good sir. Work it out"
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Mom L, I get so excited by the idea of you and a camera. Something wonderful always happens.
ReplyDeleteredgirl, a new gas line is being dug near my barn. For the convenience of the construction workers blue porta-pottys are dropped every few miles. I though of you.
What is with that lamp? Nobody mentioned it. Is it trendy and cool and I just don't know it?
ReplyDeleteCarolyn, I thought they were garnished with dragons, but Tufa Girls thinks they are flying pigs.
ReplyDeleteI love the lamp. I am going for trendy.
And now I'm going to bed, with visions of lions and rakes and porta potties in my head.
ReplyDeleteNope; they are fish with really big top fins. The look on their faces is because they really have to go the bathroom and it's obvious the line is far too long.
ReplyDeleteredgirl, you keep setting yourself up as the potty expert.
ReplyDeleteThat's only 'cuz of y'all's presupposition that I'm an expert on the subject only because potties can be considered fair game for conversation even at the dinner table
ReplyDeleteI would like to sit at the table of a potty dynasty.
ReplyDeleteI dub thee an honorary squire. That allows you the job of power hosing out the construction worker type. Make it to knight, and you're allowed to touch one of the teal ones.
ReplyDeletethanks...I'll get right on that.
ReplyDeleteWaders got included. The Pumper can probably hook you up with the gear you need.
ReplyDeleteSo SLEDS on a wall count, but not mugs on a wall???? I call bullshit.
ReplyDeleteI think what LH is saying (by, you know, NOT saying it) is that you can keep those pointless (hahaa) mugs with your decorative rocks.
ReplyDeleteI think the rake/sled combo is fabulous. It's a poetic ode to leaf removal AND carbon neutral transportation. I've personally mounted my pooper scooper alongside my bicycle on the mailbox to let everyone know that I am super green and saving the Earth one turd at a time. It also serves as a warning not to fill my mailbox with crap. But that's just me!
ReplyDeleteI like the mountain lion warning sign. And kudos whoever spiffed it up with verbage. :) Made me laugh. Now I will always be sure to carry small children with me when I'm in lion country!
ReplyDeleteeventer, I laughed so hard at what redgirl said.
ReplyDeleteredgirl, this is why we love you
Casa Mariposa, I think I should mount a pooper scooper on may mailbox. Awesome message, although Ceasar my Pomeranian has a lot to say about dog daring to poop in his year.
Lin, you could probably borrow some otherwise, you would have to do all that caring and feeding nonsense in between hikes.
It's ok, redgirl, I know inside what the truth is. I don't need vindication by a point stealer.
ReplyDeleteeventer79, pfft... The racks and sleds are no different that smacking up a star on the side of the house. It is not an entire work of art.
ReplyDeleteAh, eventer79, can you comprehend my subtle wit? I'm really on your side with this!
ReplyDelete(ahem, Lifeshighway? I TOTES agree with you, but don't tell eventer)
Yeah, that Lifeshighway...compLETELY unfair!
I would boycott her blog, but I like it too much, and I've never had that much self discipline.
ReplyDeleteand we give you lots of love
ReplyDeleteThat too. Adoration of the fawning masses is never to be discounted.
ReplyDeleteWait, redgirl, now you are playing both sides!
ReplyDeleteWhat? I don't know what you mean!
ReplyDelete