Sandcastle

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                                                         Sandcastle

My friend Eduardo is supposed to be doing a number of jobs around my house, including building a brick terrace between my gazebo and outer wall. So far Eduardo hasn’t shown, but his helper, Leonardo, has. He is a polite young man, slim, handsome and tall.  He is much taken by black rap–a fact evidenced by the music that emanates from his phone all day long.  He’s been here every day this week, scraping old paint and salitre from my walls, putting on anti-salitre. Today a truck dumped a load of sand and piled up bricks in my garage, but unfortunately they piled the bricks against the cabinets which I needed to open.

“No problema,” said Leonardo, when I explained.  He would take care of it.  When I came out later, this is what I found:

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So sweet. He built this little brick wall around  his conical sandcastle.  So pretty, like an art installation.Can I park my car in the garage? No.  Did I need to unpack a carload of supplies and food from my trip to Costco? Do I need to start loading things I want to take to La Manzanilla, including retablos and found art sculptures for an open studio I’ve participating in? Yes, but my garage looks like a playground and I don’t want to disturb the ambiance, so whatever I load will be in a car parked on the street.  I think I won’t load too far in advance.

Please go HERE for a poem about sand castles plus an extraordinary video about an artist who works in sand–underground!!  I’ve never seen anything to compare with this man’s work.

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  3. Allenda Moriarty's avatarAllenda Moriarty

    I love it! Want to jump right in and start playing. I am trying to envision your plans for a terrace from the gazebo to the wall. Can’t wait to see pics. This will be a perfect time to get work done while you are away and don’t have to be bothered with the mess. Have a great time at the beach!

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      It is actually a wide brick sidewalk that goes from the brick sidewalk that leads to the gazebo, around the left side of the gazebo to the back wall. There is a pipe and a tree root there I keep stumbling over when I go down to turn of the pump for the irrigation system. I just don’t want to take any more chances than I need to since I HAVE NO NEIGHBORS ANYMORE!!!!

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Ha. He is young enough to be my grandson and I am not the cougar tpe. He is very silent except for the Snoop Doggie Dog rap that he plays all day long. I asked if he understood English and he said no. I should be so lucky. Some pretty ripe lyrics but glad that isn’t what he is listening for!

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      1. barbwit's avatarbarbwit

        I was thinking the other day how they don’t have the silly songs I remember, and now it is often hardly concealed sex. And then I thought of the song Coax Me a Little Bit; or Take it Easy – very suggestive lyrics, but I didn’t think anything of them in my innocent youth. Maybe that’s the same now?

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