The Sign Says What?

Sunday night Mike and I went out to dinner with a local artist, Daryl Howard, and her husband, Owen. It was really a fun evening with interesting conversation, great food and several wonderful wines. Not surprising, they have this really fabulous artsy house out in the country near Dripping Springs with a cat, 3 dogs and 14 longhorns. They are looking to sell a few of the recent longhorn offspring...so if you know anyone looking for a longhorn for themselves or as a great gift for their favorite UT fan, let me know and I'll put you in touch with them. Because it was All Souls Day yesterday Daryl had made us something special to wear. I am not sure if this was supposed to protect us from something or if it was decorative, but both Mike and I happily wore ours draped around our necks out to dinner.


Back to the artist. Not only is she an artist, she also collects other art and eclectic things. Ever hear of Stanley Marsh or the Cadillac Ranch? Surely you've heard of the man who semi-buries cadillacs as an art form out in west Texas? Well, that is Mr Marsh and he also has created a series of really interesting signs - like 200 of them. He even calls them eccentric. They say things like "Road Does Not End"

or Blue Period, which is a life size sign on their Dripping Springs property. People contacted Jane Grieg, the "answer lady," who used to have a column in the Statesman newspaper, to find out what this sign meant! Check out the link in the word "signs" above for more examples. If you were driving, what would you do when you saw this sign?

This morning I met Duncan at the car place where his truck is being repaired and as soon as he got in my car he declared that he was starving! So instead of dropping him off at his office right away we detoured to the Krispy Kreme place up on 183. It was our lucky day and the donut sign was lit - meaning they just happened to be making fresh donuts and we would get free samples! There is nothing better in this world than a fresh right off the conveyer belt Krispy Kreme.

After snarfing down our free donuts, I purchased him two more to fill him up.

Duncan was going to stay with me for the evening and when I picked him up, I got to see his office where he does all of his computer stuff. It is functional but is in desperate need for some color other than gray. Duncan is wearing his usual black and white, but this IS a color photo below.

Besides being colorless, it is the most paper-less cubicle I have ever seen. He had one yellow sticky - with guess what? - passwords on it! At least they looked like passwords to me. LOL.

Duncan has lots of fun electronic toys. This is a little device that he and his boss, Rick, take turns hiding in each others offices as a prank. It makes chirping sounds at random intervals. Enough to drive you crazy but not frequently enough so you can find where it is hidden.

And this is some sort of fancy touch pad and magic pen for doing graphics work. He's got a great set up there. Now if I can just find something colorful for him to put in his space....