photo taken November 2009 • title thanks to laura h.
one year ago: Self Expression
two years ago: Another Leg
If you have not read the comments on this post, I can only assume you are a masochist. Read them! It will make your day better and you will laugh.
PS: White is Lava! Orange is Safe!
I currently have 178 entries tied for first place and some animals that need attention so I will be posting the winner this afternoon!
I’ve been revamping my floors. This floor is a poured concrete slab which Mike & I did ourselves and let me tell you, it was a horrible job. Horrible both in the doing and in the end result.
For those who’ve not had the pleasure, pouring a concrete slab is a race against time, shoveling concrete madly as it shoots out of the truck (concrete is heavy!) and then trying one’s best to level it and smooth the surface before it gets tacky. Well, my floor ended up just plain tacky.
The final result, after such wretched, strenuous labor, was a plain, unfinished concrete slab ~ ugly, uninspired, dreary… altogether yucky. Also extremely difficult to clean, as concrete is so rough and porous.
In late Fall, Charlie’s instincts come to the fore and he gets very concerned about his territory ~ in the wild, this is the time of year when coyotes are searching for and/or defending their territory. And so he marks it ~ a bit on his food dish, a bit on his bed ~ and while it’s not drastic, inevitably some pee gets on the floor. I quickly became so over scrubbing bare concrete! So I decided to paint it.
This is the floor just partway done ~ the light rust (looking orange in this pic) is not fully across the floor and the second color has not been applied (the white is just primer). I promise to show pics of the completed floor! It looks so fantastic. Bonus: several coats of semi-gloss paint has created a surface layer that is a breeze to clean.
Charlie came inside once the first section I’d painted was fully dry and he became obsessed with the colored paint. He paid no attention to the white paint but somersaulted and rubbed his body all over the colored squares. He is weird. Please title this photo. You’ll be in the running for an equally weird prize.
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:37 am
Charlie, Going Dutch
(I think orange is the official color of The Netherlands)
Back to Square One
Shreve, Orange You Glad You Took Charlie’s Photo? (LOL)
Nobody Puts Charlie In A Corner
My Tile, For A While
Holding Down The Floor
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:42 am
He’s just floored over the new designer color…
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:43 am
‘Kneel’ Diamond
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:43 am
Art in the Wild
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:43 am
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.” (Lewis Carroll)
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:43 am
B-boy Charlie Busts a Move.
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:45 am
“Come on baby, let’s do the twist”
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:45 am
I BLEND!!! I BLEND!!!!
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:48 am
“let’s play Twister!”
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:52 am
Twist and Snout!
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:52 am
At a complete loss for words!
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:53 am
I would simply title it “Unfinished”
that is a gorgeous picture.
You just get this wonderful sense of a hard job, a good life, a weird girl ~ all unfinished.
Perhaps even: A Moment on the Edge of Now.
Thank you for the visual wake up call this morning.
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:53 am
Checkerboard Charlie
Or
Coyote Chess
Or
Coyote Twister
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:55 am
By the way, I meant “weird” in the quirky, fun, unpredictable sense of the word. I just ASSume since I always take it as a compliment that everyone else does too. ;p
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:56 am
“Ok – I think I’ve got it!! Quick Chloe ‘n Eli – use the staple gun before it gets away!!”
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:56 am
Knight Charlie to L7…..
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:57 am
Orangecicle Dreams
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:58 am
White is Lava! Orange is Safe!
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Did I win Twister?
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Square Dancing
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Concrete Coyote
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Diamonds in the Rough
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Party Trick! Watch me turn into Scrat the Squirrel from Ice Age!
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Charlie scores in Knoxville!!
http://smokeys-trail.com/TN/images/checkerboard_endzone.jpg
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Charlie’s checkered past
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Concrete Cowboy
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:13 pm
just doin the twist.
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:13 pm
“Ruff in the Diamond”
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Charlie performs Hamlet, Act V, scene II.
“Must…. wipe…. up…. nasty paint… hiding my… lovely marked concrete below. Be free, my dull grey conquest!!!”
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Charlie’s Out of Line
or
Coloring out of the Lines
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Hop-Scotch, anyone? or “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up. I’m stuck to the orange floor like a peanut butter cup.”
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Fool’s Gold
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:21 pm
If I lie down and rub, it will smell just like me.
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Back to Square One
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Coyote Catnip
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Bread always lands butter side down, but Coyotes land butt side up.
“I can hear the prairie!”
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Rough in the Diamond
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Home, home on the Orange….
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Mine, all mine!!!
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Charlie Covets the Color
or
Charlie Covets the Concrete
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Look! I match!
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Charlie is such a square
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Charlie knows… “it’s hip to be square”!
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Argylie Coyote
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:44 pm
A wild game of Twister!
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Who says coyotes can’t see color? They feel it, too!
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Missed a Box
King of the Board
Charlie’s Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Down the Coyote Hole
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Check Mate!
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:52 pm
“all the ways about here belong to me”.
From “Through the Looking Glass, when Alice talks to the Queen. Or:
“turn out your toes as you walk — and remember who you are!”
from the same scene.
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Have to admit, “Orange this my territory?” came to mind first, bad as it is.
He looks like he’s trying to mark it the way my cat marks my clean laundry – the face rubbing method, obviously not the urination method!