Now that you've let your mind go to that old riddle*, bring it back to Switzerland.
And Swiss fields.
And Swiss sheds.
Now.
THIS is what is brown and sticky in Swiss fields:
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| A stick stack (or a super huge broom). |
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| Sometimes there are multiple...stick stacks...er, piles? |
And in Swiss sheds:
The brooms here are actually made from hand-tied sticks and are used extensively - outside and in.
Some things in Switzerland are just so retro. Like these stick stacks and these brooms.
A close up of the hand-tied sticks:
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| This one is outside our apartment building to be used by the groundskeepers. |
No poem today, just an old riddle that reminds me of Switzerland - both for the smell and the sound of bells (that was told to me a long time ago by one of my former students):
Q: What's brown and sounds like a bell?
A: ¡ƃunp (read upside down)
*For those of you who don't know the answer to the riddle in the title, email me, and I will tell you the answer.
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Is that "stick" a vent pipe into the center of the compost pile? Something to let gasses out or air in?
ReplyDeleteHey Chris, no the stick is actually just a wooden stick - it is not hallow as far as we can tell. Though I realize I should have had Joe stand next to the stack so you could see the scale - it is much taller than him. Thanks for commenting. =)
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