You bet I am
This one is obvious, though you probably can’t see the row of knitted poppies in various colors across the top. Guerilla knitting on public furniture is a thing here now.
Uncle B said, you aren’t going to inflict a whole week of public benches on your readers, are you?
And I said, this blog turns 18 this year. I have done a total of 5,101 posts, not including this one. I’ve probably told all my family stories twice. If I’ve got five pictures of benches, yes I by-god am going to have a week of benchposting.
Two more to go. Enjoy!
Posted: October 8th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 5
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Comment from aelf
Time: October 8, 2025, 5:42 pm
Benches all the way down.
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: October 8, 2025, 8:22 pm
Bench Week – October 6 thru 10, 2025 🙂
Comment from Veeshir
Time: October 8, 2025, 10:15 pm
A bench warrant?
Shouldn’t the poppies be for WWI?
In Flanders Field.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: October 8, 2025, 10:20 pm
I love benches. I especially like British benches. I used to get the Smith and Hawkens gardening catalog where they sold a Lutyens bench, which I wanted very much. The catalog is no more, but some stores stock Smith and Hawken products.
In 1984, I bought a redwood bench that was one of a pair that sat outside the main entrance of a Montgomery Ward store; it was going out of business. I would have bought both of them, but I figured JavaMan would be annoyed at me enough for buying the one. It was 8 ft long and four-men heavy. We moved that bench all over Texas, and when we moved from San Antonio, JavaMan and JavaSon forgot to load it in the moving van. When I found out it had been left behind, I felt like a meteor had burned through my insides.
They promised to build me a replica, but who can afford redwood lumber now?
More pics of Guerilla knitting would be fun 🙂
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: October 9, 2025, 6:34 pm
Everything you write is interesting, stoaty. Some is stupendously fascinating and engrossing, some is simply interesting. But it’s all good. Please don’t stop.
The benches are cool!
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