Aug 21 2006
Look Over There!
And suddenly a blog post will appear here!
I haven’t posted a non-book-review-post in quite some time. Life hasn’t been as busy as I’d like to think, but I’ve been unmotivated to write anything new. Or even to adapt something old.
One thing of note that has happened is that our house has been visited by someone in the neighborhood. At least, I assume he/they live in the neighborhood.
Twice.
Twice in the last month our garage has been “tagged”? with graffiti. This past Thursday Theresa and the kids went out and whitewashed the back of the garage (which faces the alley behind our home) and Friday night (yes less than 48 hours later) it was hit again. And last night (or the night before–I didn’t go in the alley yesterday) it was updated just a tad and more was added to our neighbor’s garage.
Here’s a photo of our garage:
Definitely not Picasso. Not even that creative for graffiti.
We’re going to repaint it. This time we’re painting it orange. Maybe it will be less attractive of a scene to spray paint. We don’t know if this is the average juvenile delinquents doing vandalism or gangs marking their territory, and we may never know. We’ve discussed various options of what to do in response, and for now it’ll be painted orange. I’ll post another picture when that’s done.
May God use us as an instrument for change in this neighborhood.
I dunno… i think the robot is kind of cute. could we leave him?
I don’t like the pair of eyes with one eye blacked out… that’s kind of creepy… but i doubt it’s any kind of real ‘tagging’. taggers are generally more artistic (even when they aren’t very good).
We’re not leaving the robot, sorry. In fact, it’s possible that even as we read this my children are finishing up the orangifying of the garage.
Already making enemies eh?
Do you have a dog? That barks loudly? That might work.