Neanderpundit

we had a family who had a nativity scene made out of blowmolded plastic. They had faded so much that the holy family had become sort of holy whitish blobs.

One year, they capitalized on this by turning them around and painting ghost faces on the backs, and using them as halloween decorations. When Christmas approached, they let the youngest in the family use fingerpaint to paint the faces and clothes back onto the figures for the season.

I just drove by to discover that this year Joseph was, based on facial features, chinese this Christmas. And Mary is now apparently a Native American. Strangest of all, Jesus seems to be a monkey, and his swaddling clothes apparently blue tarp and duct tape.

God bless them for making an effort, I suppose.

Water main break right in front of our house! YAY!!

Damned global warming.

Update: the main has been gugling water into the street for about twelve hours now. There are two little geysers about 3″ tall splorping water and mud up onto the asphalt. I expect there’s beginning to be a good subsidence under the pavement, there. NIPSCO came out and marked the gaslines, but no help from Streets and San yet. Wonder how long before a whole car disapears under the street.

Update 2: the crew has arrived. Poor bastards are standing waist deep in a hole full of ice cold water. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but they’re getting paid well.

At least we should ahve water by tomorrow AM.

Update3: Done, hole in asphalt filled in with gravel, a nice and workmanlike job and no leaks. Less than three hours start to finish, I’d say, all in the dark, all done in about three feet of water by guys standing in the cold- it’s 21 degrees out, at present. God bless ’em, and I hope the rest of their night is warmer. Thank God, most of all, that it was city property and not something I ended up having to pay for!!