Close to Home by John McPherson for December 22, 2024

the neighborhood bully will probably knock the nose off!

Something to sphinx about

They’re flexing their sphinx-ter muscles.

Snow kidding…

They built just about the ugliest cat I believe I’ve ever seen!

Okay, I’m being told it is the Spanx or Spinx or Sphinx or sump’n. Whatever… still looks like an ugly cat.

People are astounded at ancient monuments and buildings and can’t understand how they could have achieved this. Well this partially explains it. Also they didn’t have their noses in a phone 24/7 either.

It’s a riddle to me how they accomplished it.

Kind of makes my snow fort look bad!

Is their telephone now in country code 20?

I think bleeb should be wearing a jacket

Now to get them to shovel the walkway! I have 100 ft path to keep clear to the firewood (40’ ramp and 60’ over to polebarn), plus up the driveway, in front of the mailbox, and around the car. Takes more to keep car in carport and shovel the driveway completely. No time for building things. I do remember making snow angels in the back yard with my husband. He was always fun (died nearly 20 years ago).

What is the weird pattern on the chimney?

Very impressive indeed…..

Where did they get that much snow? There shouldn’t be any on the nearby ground. Maybe they used the same techniques as the original builders did.

unless it was too frigid we spent most of our childhood winters outside, building snow forts, sledding, exploring. I feel sorry for the kids that spend their days indoors on devices or watching TV

See what they learned from screen time.

Careful, the next step is they get involved in a pyramid scheme.

The garage is now buried under the magically appearing snow! LOL

They should name him Leon, Leon Sphinx.

It looks like Shemp.

The story that Napoleon’s men shot off the nose is not true, there are photos of the nose missing before Napoleon came to Egypt.

Awww, they gave it Dad’s nose.

I guess the internet has been down quite a while.

C’mon Bleeb! You’re not gonna let them outdo you, are ya? How about a nice Venus de Milo? Yeah, I never could do arms either. :)

But they made the Sphinx with instructions from a YouTube video.

Next it’s the pyramid