SABTC: Update #8

We saw some interesting outdoor sculptures in Washington DC. For your viewing pleasure, I shall sprinkle them amongst the bullet points.

• It is nearly the end of the summer and the penultimate week of updates for the Second Annual Boxtopapalooza. Here at chez trek, we have accumulated 104 Box Tops to date.



• I raided all of the unopened packages on the pantry shelves last night.



• The lovely April sent me a little card last week with some Box Tops enclosed. Thanks, April!



• This sculpture lives right next to the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall. I'm not sure what the artist intended, but I think it resembles the early space capsules.
  
  
  Only a heck of a lot bigger.


• Seriously, the first astronauts went into space in aluminum containers I could fit into the back of our minivan. How did they ever pass their psych evaluations? They were obviously certifiably insane.



• On the other hand, perhaps that was the point of the psychological analysis: not to determine their likelihood of retaining their sanity under extreme conditions but to ensure that there was no sanity to lose in the first place.



• I baked a fresh loaf of oatmeal bread yesterday morning. We have a mini loaf pan, so I tried halving the recipe. It worked beautifully: oh, that heavenly aroma!



• This sculpture was in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, as were the following two pieces. I don't know how Roy Lichtenstein did it, but this is a three-dimensional trompe-l'oeil piece: it seems to move, perfectly changing its perspective in relationship to your eye as you walk by it.
  
  
  Number Guy said the illusion made him a little nauseated.


• Here in our house, there are merely three ultra-short days until Neatnik begins the second grade. We are in the process of adjusting back to School Time. Gah.



• Speaking of school, I ran into one of my former students in the mall the other day. He was at work and Neatnik and I were taking a walk. He said, "Hey, professor trek! I bet you don't remember me." I took one look at his nametag and identified him as having been in my Friday morning class. Yeah, he was pretty stunned.



• While I am not at all ready for back to school, I must admit that getting in my daily constitutional will be simpler once Neatnik is safely at school.



• This sheet metal number is also a Lichtenstein creation. He named it Red Horse.
  
  
  I know from horses and this is not horse-shaped.


• Sol LeWitt called this number Four Sided Pyramid, but it reminds me of Q*bert.
  
  
  Tell me this doesn't remind you of the arcade game.
  I suppose that the quilters out there would think
  it looks like Tumbling Blocks, though.

Lest anyone think that the knitting has ceased completely, let us end this Monday Morning Bullet Post with a finished object: a dishcloth. This one I'm calling Waff-ooz! with Butter.

Waffle Knit Dishcloth