It’s Friday the 13th plus there’s a full moon tonight. Not only that, it is technically a “Super Full Moon”, a celestial rarity which won’t happen again for 35 years, so best get thee to the window or outside after dark tonight. Well, should that make us super-superstitious today then? When you think of Friday the 13th, oddball things often come to mind, so here’s where I should cue the intro music from the TV show “The Twilight Zone” followed by the euphonious, yet mysterious, voice of Rod Serling. Now that I’ve set the stage, I’ll tell the tale which accompanies the photo above of a park bench with a rather odd-looking seat slat. I pass this memorial park bench every time I walk at Council Point Park. One day it was A-OK and the next day one of the three slats was bent out of shape – literally. The slat is not damaged in the least; in fact, the veneer is intact and unmarred and there are no splinters in the wood. It is the topic of conversation amongst Park walkers as we each try to guess what happened. Did a heavy person sit on the edge of the bench? Did someone stomp on just that bench slat with soft-soled shoes? It was very humid when I took the picture and the dew drops which were hanging along the back of the bench were pendulous and looked ready to drop down like big teardrops. It was a little eerie. I’m flummoxed. I must concede that perhaps, my mind, like the park bench seat, is a trifle warped to devote an entire post to such an anomaly. But really – what gives with this? I hope you have tread through your Friday the 13th without incident. To get myself through this somewhat ominous event I did not carry along a lucky rabbit’s foot (for fear of offending any of the bunnies who might cross my path at the Park), nor did I choose to knock on wood, especially, on this wooden park bench, because surely it would smash it to smithereens.
Linda Schaub
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FIFTY FAVORITE PARK PHOTOS
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- Parker noshin’ nuts
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Black Squirrel
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- Parker, my Park cutie!
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- Pekin Duck
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- Mallard Hybrid Duck
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- Midnight munchin’ nuts
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- Mute Swan
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- Goslings
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- Mama Robin
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- Seagulls on ice floe
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Parker chowin’ down
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- Mallard Duck
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- Northern Cardinal
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- Great Blue Heron (“Harry”) fishing for shad
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- Parker: shameless begging
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- Viceroy Butterfly
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- Great Blue Heron
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- American Goldfinch
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- Seagull
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- Robin baby (not fledged yet)
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Robins almost ready to fledge
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- Parker angling for peanuts
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- Robin fledgling
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- Parker making a point that he wants peanuts
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- Parker smells peanuts
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- Parker with a peanut
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Seagull
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- Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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- Pekin Duck
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- Starling
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- Canada Geese family
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- Canada Goose and goslings
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Parker says candy is dandy.
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- Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
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- American Goldfinch
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- Hunny Bunny
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- Parker looking for peanuts
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- The pier just past sunrise
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- Mute Swan
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- Parker in the snow
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- Parker and a treat
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Me and my shadow (a/k/a Parker)
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Seagull
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- Canada Goose
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Mute Swan
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- Fox Squirrel – Parker
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- Northern Cardinal
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BADGES
Gosh!! That should be fixed!! ASAP!!
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I know – it is amazing and five years ago and still like that. It just happened overnight, so that’s the strangest thing. If something heavy was on it, it would have broken, not bent. The people who purchased the bench would be horrified – I know I would!
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Agreed!
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