Advertising makes the modern world go ’round and this Avon promotion really lit up the mailboxes on our end of the street this morning. I was headed out to get the papers, still in my pjs and bleary eyed when I spotted this apparition. Had to go back in and get my camera before anyone disturbed the installation.
We still refer to the house next door as Leo’s even though he died two years ago but the new tenants are fairly disciplined and will soon have left their mark. One is a writer and from my perch her silhouette can be seen every morning in the saddle at her desk in the back room.
Leo’s lovable legacy includes his depression era skimpiness. When we first moved in he asked if he could put a few things in our trash and of course we said yes. We soon learned he had never purchased a trash pick-up contract and this would be a weekly routine. When a carpenter was rebuilding a wall in the basement for the new tenants he took all his measurements with his twenty five foot tape rule and then mistakenly picked up Leo’s tape rule to measure the lumber. He constructed the wall on the ground and then lifted it in to place and discovered it was ten inches short. It took him a bit to figure out that Leo had broken his tape measure and and instead of springing for a new one he cut out the inches between ten and twenty and then put it back together.
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Fabulous photo.
great leo story!