The Mystery Unveiled

A bit back, I wrote about a mysterious object which I swiped from someone's garbage. Originally, I had planned for it to be part of the white elephant gift exchange, but fortunately I've actually found a place for it at my house so it gets to stay with me and now I can tell you about it, although I think I already told Ellen about it.




And here it is. This massive piece of woodworking measures 3' x 4' and is fairly bulky and entirely useless except as a kitschy decoration. It does show some decent creativity and skill. The use of colored stains instead of opaque paints allows the grain of the wood to show through (one of my favorite features of the thing) and the pieces were well cut and sanded. I considered hanging it in my room, but I don't have enough for my artwork and smaller pieces of oddity (like the linoleum tile from the chemistry room or the horseshoe that was worn long ago by a Clydesdale that belonged to some relative of my old gym teacher's) as is, so I decided against it. However, my dad is willing to attack it to the wooden beams in the ceiling of the area of the basement that serves as a craft center. Although it would have been fun to see some poor person wind up with this on Friday (I had even come up with a way of bestowing it upon someone without them consciously picking a three-by-four-foot piece of plywood - it's a pity I can't use the little trick anymore), I'm really quite glad that it gets to stay with me.

But fear not, I still have a "fun" prize for the albino pachyderm exchange!