Wordless Wednesday

I have to show this picture to my wife. She’s the gardener around here and she’s always looking for interesting garden decor and planters.

I’ll bet she’ll love this idea!

What’s the most unusual planter or garden decor that you’ve seen?

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This weeks theme is Creative

When we were at an outdoor art show a couple of weeks ago my wife brought her new camera and I’m glad she did because we found so many different types of art to photograph and get ideas from that it was amazing.

We both really liked the metal work artists that we came across. These are frogs, a lizard and a bat. I’m not sure what the red thing is in the lower right corner. It might be a crab?

All of these pieces were made with recovered and or recycled metals so I suppose you could say they are eco-friendly to some degree. I just think their cool and yes, very creative.

Yes it’s true:

Fried Coke has become the latest artery-clogging hit at US state fairs, local Chicago media reports. I need to get a photo of this for you. It looks a bit like onion rings from what I saw.

The gooey Coke-battered nuggets topped with cola syrup won the “most creative” title at the Texas state fair in Dallas last month. Since then, the deep-fried phenomenon has spread to North Carolina and Arizona. Now with this story I’m sure it’s going to spread throughout North America too. We love our odd sweets don’t we?

“We’ve been getting calls from everywhere since we introduced it,” Elizabeth Martin, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina fair, told the Dallas Morning News. I bet they have been getting calls. It’s both odd, interesting and I’m presuming highly fattening.

Fried Coke’s inventor, concessionaire Abel Gonzales Jr. has sold 16,000 cups of the sticky balls in the first two weeks of the fair, which ran through October 22.

I wonder if they’re going to come up with a catchy name for the gooey treat? Can you come up with some suggested names?

From an Atlanta police report, summarized in a July issue of the weekly Creative Loafing:

A man working on a house on Smith Street was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with serious injuries to his posterior. He happened to be bending over next to a wall that, unknown to him, a worker on the other side was drilling into, and the drill bit entered his “anal cavity.” (Creative Loafing of Atlanta), July 5, 2006)

New York’s Finest:

Four New York City police were called to an apartment house in July in the Bronx concerning a landlord-tenant dispute, but were distracted by a teenager in the hallway smoking marijuana and started to chase him, when a pit bull attacked the officers. The toll, 26 bullets later: one dead dog, one bitten officer, three other officers wounded by each other’s gunshots. (New York Post, July 24, 2006)