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Dec. 9, 2009
Please Put the
Penguins Back
Unfortunately, I have to write
this blog because I’m mad. I’m not mad because I had to interview
the Moon Mountain Ramblers, gosh no. They’re great. No problem
there.
I’m mad because somebody stole
the penguins.
The giant inflatable penguins,
which were the Christmas decorations on the corner in Mosier. One
decoration was just a huge inflatable 8-ft tall dude. Looked
exactly like a Christmas penguin. The other, was a smaller penguin
that lived in an inflatable igloo, and every 45 seconds or so, he
would rise out of the igloo, wave, and then go back inside.
In fact, if you check my blog
archives, those penguins were the subject of one my first
write-ups here on the Web. We dealt with questionable wiring and
electrical plugs to get those things set up, and this year, we had
that all properly worked out.
I’m really mad about this,
because the other night, we noticed that some of the light bulbs
for these inflatable holiday penguins were burned out, and we
spent 40 minutes freezing our butts off wrestling with these
contraptions to replace the bulbs.
Have you ever tried to replace
light bulbs in these things?? It’s one of these projects that
requires you to do something, but you have no idea how to do it,
and when you’re doing it, you can’t see anything, because there’s
a giant inflatable penguin directly in your face and it’s 28
degrees out and then you think you finally find the light bulb
after wrestling around with these things for 20 minutes hoping
that you’re not breaking it beyond repair, only to find out that
when you do actually find a light bulb you need a small Phillips
screwdriver to undo two tiny screws of the weird light bulb
plastic case and god forbid if you drop the screw because you’re
never going to find it if you do, and this plastic case apparently
exists so the heat from the bulb doesn’t burn through the penguin
and deflate it.
It’s just like that, I tell
you.
Well, I say this to the
persons that took them. I hope you’re stupid enough to set them up
at your house, that way the police will find you. And if I get to
identify the penguins in a line up, I’ll be able to tell if
they’re the same ones I worked on.
I’ve got the burned out light
bulbs to prove it.
And now, back to our regular
blog. Please enjoy an interview with the Moon Mountain Ramblers.
They’ll be appearing at River City Saloon on Friday, Dec. 11. And
hopefully, by then, we’ll be able to say the penguin thieves will
be in jail and Mosier will get their decorations back.
For an interview with the Moon
Mountain Ramblers, click
here:
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