Hey, you kids!

Posted by Glen in on 21 Jun. 2005, 6:06 pm

There is currently a group of 30 or so college-age people filming some sort of movie in the neighbor’s front yard. Unfortunately, the movie also seems to involve our front yard, judging by the several people that I saw casually leaning on the TerpWagon and tramping across our lawn as I arrived home from work this evening. While I fought my crotchety-old-man urge to immediately set up a sprinkler in that section of the lawn (we are in the midst of a mini-drought, after all), Rachel negotiated some conditions for their shoot: do not touch the TerpWagon. Some people have no common courtesy, I say.

Now we shall resume monitoring them from the window.

  1. Comment from Devon on 21 Jun. 2005, 6:47 pm :

    Is the TerpWagon the Jetta? If so I would have flipped out and ended up hitting someone hahahaha. That is pretty rude that they just disregarded your property. Has anything else happend? and your old man urge? your like 3 years older then me haha. your not OLD yet my friend.

  2. Comment from Glen on 21 Jun. 2005, 7:13 pm :

    Yes, the Terp Wagon is the Jetta.

    Surveillance indicates that they are dressed as both frat people and hippies. I’m not sure which group is acting and which group is filming, but I should have used the sprinkler regardless.

  3. Comment from Eric on 21 Jun. 2005, 7:42 pm :

    Maybe they’re staring in the medieval action thriller I saw being filmed at the creek in the park yesterday.

  4. Comment from Em on 22 Jun. 2005, 12:47 pm :

    Hmmmm, methinks you need some No Trespassing signs. Be sure to stomp your cane on the pavement as you wobble up to your front door, and use the word “whippersnappers” at least once.

  5. Comment from Maggie on 22 Jun. 2005, 2:46 pm :

    medieval action thriller?

  6. Comment from Glen on 22 Jun. 2005, 7:46 pm :

    I need my cane to lean on as I shake my fist at the hooligans.

  7. Comment from Eric on 23 Jun. 2005, 8:36 pm :

    I was riding my bike through the park as 3 kids, dressed as knights, pillaged a creek. Another kid was recording them from a bridge.

  8. Comment from Devon on 23 Jun. 2005, 10:56 pm :

    Ya can always do what I do when people get to close to my car. Hit the panic button and they get scared and run haha. Or buy a paintball gun if they refuse to vacate the premises fire at will. :) Are they still filming? Or was it just that day?

  9. Comment from Maggie on 24 Jun. 2005, 2:30 pm :

    “pillaged a creek?” I’m sure the fish will never recover. My imagination is NOTHING on these guys.

  10. Comment from Angela on 28 Jun. 2005, 8:52 am :

    No need for elaborate costumes (sweater vests) and props (cane). How about that ferocious dog named Cletus that you’ve been meaning to adopt? That and a huge BEWARE of DOG sign ought to keep the kids well away.

    Also, does it strike you that the extreme protectiveness of one’s car seems a super-American trait?

  11. Comment from Rachel on 28 Jun. 2005, 8:52 pm :

    It is, after all, super protectiveness of one’s FIRST new car. And, come on, who leans on someone’s car IN THEIR DRIVEWAY while THEY ARE PULLING UP! You can’t get more inconsiderate than that.

    As a side note, I was brandishing curly willow (sticks), which I was putting in a vase during the offensive car actions.

  12. Comment from Angela on 29 Jun. 2005, 8:47 am :

    oh, how do you lean on a moving car? I didn’t understand that part. Bold kids need bold brandishing of curly willow (sticks). Good girl, Rachel!

  13. Comment from Rachel on 30 Jun. 2005, 6:55 am :

    Ahhh, I was being confusing. They were leaning on the Jetta, as Glen pulled into the driveway in the Civic.

Nothing to report

Posted by Glen in on 20 Jun. 2005, 6:05 pm

I’ve been busy lately, hence the lack of posts. Next week = Arizona, Week after that = Maryland, then Lake. Nothing much to report on the home front, except that the initial landscaping is finally done.

Also, congratulations Mike and Bonnie!

  1. Comment from Angela on 23 Jun. 2005, 7:15 pm :

    ooh, when will you be in MD??!

  2. Comment from Glen on 24 Jun. 2005, 5:22 am :

    Next Friday evening through Sunday morning. Not very long.

  3. Comment from Em on 27 Jun. 2005, 11:02 am :

    For my wedding!!!

Random

Posted by Glen in on 2 Jun. 2005, 7:37 pm

Now that we have a front step, we are able to subscribe to the local paper. Rachel alerted me to a section in today’s issue called “Primarily Kids,” in which local elementary schoolers responded to last week’s “Primarily Kids” question: “What is your favorite food in the summertime?” Here are my favorite responses:

“My favorite food to eat in the summer is ice cream and popsicles. They are my favorite foods to eat in the summer and thank you for asking.

“My favorite food to eat during the summer is brats because they taste like sausage and I love sausage.”

“My favorite food in the summertime is watermelon. I like it because it is cold and juicy. I want to grow it in my garden, but Dad says there wouldn’t be enough room for anything else. My grandma grows it, so we go pick some, cut it up and eat it.”

“I don’t have one. The foods I like are pizza, Fruit Loops, toast, french fries and chicken. These foods are things you can eat all year, every year.”

Indeed. Now I will go eat some ice cream, because ice cream is my favorite food to eat in the summertime. Thank you for asking.

  1. Comment from Angela on 2 Jun. 2005, 8:59 pm :

    why do they say “in the summertime” instead of just, in the summer? We must teach our children to write!

    anyway, this is just my kind of question! thank you for asking! My favorite food to eat in the summer is corn!

  2. Comment from Glen on 3 Jun. 2005, 5:28 am :

    Mine too. I’m not sure why I picked ice cream last night. I must have been swayed by all of the ice cream responses. Interesting that there was not a single corn response in the land of corn and soybeans…

  3. Comment from Angela on 3 Jun. 2005, 9:03 am :

    I think ice cream fits into that last kid’s category of foods you can eat all year every year. Perhaps the children of Illinois are frustrated by the endless miles of feed corn that they can’t eat.

  4. Comment from Jane on 3 Jun. 2005, 2:12 pm :

    ice cream tastes extra good in the summertime, though i go with the latter, popsicles.

    Crabs are my favorite summertime food.

    also, i love the word summertime.

  5. Comment from Mark on 16 Jun. 2005, 7:57 pm :

    Darn! I missed my chance to learn more about poker.

  6. Comment from Glen on 17 Jun. 2005, 5:37 am :

    I suspect you will have some new opportunities later in the day.