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Of Mustaches and Medicine Men
September 12th, 2008 by witherow
Ahh! I’ve been a bad, bad blogger and have let PumpkinAnkles sit unattended for two weeks! Let me assure you that I have only the best of excuses to offer, which I can supply upon request.
So, anyway, TWO WEEKS AGO I had an experience worth blogging about. My father came to visit for a few days. He’s been all over the world on business trips, including places as far-flung as China, Iraq, Holland and Greenland. Yes, Greenland. People actually do live there, though a “town” may consist of four houses clustered together. And there are no roads between said “towns” … you are expected to take a plane. Or maybe a dog team. Or maybe a bike, if you’re stupid.
So my dad got me a souvenir from this oft-ignored island (which, thankfully for him, he visited during the summer months, when the sun never quite sets).
This is a pendent … carved by a medicine man … made from a antler … that came from a reindeer … that was buried in a glacier … four thousand years ago. So basically, at about the same time that Jacob was wrestling with angels and trying to keep tabs on his kids, this antler was on the head of some reindeer that was frolicking around and getting run over by glaciers. That’s pretty cool if you ask me. Well, cool for me. Maybe not so cool for the reindeer.
On Saturday Becky and I took our dad to downtown Greenville.
Here Becky and I are looking off over the Reedy River while standing in “that building with holes in it where people get married,” as Becky’s old roommate once described it.
Here’s me and my dad in front of this cool fountain in front of an amazing hotel along Main Street.
OK, this sign wasn’t particularly spectacular, except that from a distance it looked like the first line read “smoking pets.” Which we thought was funny. And it kind of was. At the time. Just laugh, okay?
We also went to Mast General Store and found curiosities such as “pickled garlic.” (As soon as you open the jar, some vampire in Wisconsin drops dead.)
We also found this lovely set of artificial mustaches—one for every day of the week. I decided this would be a wonderful and unique gift for our very own Daniel Stephen Moses Nickerson, who was compelled to shave off his facial hair before returning to school and would possibly be going through withdrawal. So I bought the set and presented it to him on the day of the Great Shearing.
After our downtown adventure, our dad got some of the photographs from his world travels enlarged to poster-size and then framed them for our apartment walls.
Here are the ones now displayed in our living room:
An iron gate to a garden in Prague
An old stairway in China
And our personal favorite … A pile of rocks in Greenland. But what a cool pile of rocks it is! It’s probably the remains of a Viking settlement. Or an ancient grave marker. Or something some extremely bored Greenlandish teenagers did to pass the time. But still it’s pretty cool.
So there you have it. Greenland rocks!
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on September 20th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Wow, that is almost as good as the rasin army. Although, rasin armies are still my favorite blog post on here. Once again, you had me laughing.