… that the only thing in either of our freezers is three bottles of vodka. We rarely drink, but vodka was the only thing that survived our recent power outage. Why we have three bottles is a mystery.
What unusual-for-you thing would a visitor to your house see?
A gaudily painted Mexican Madonna statue. Madonna as in Jesus, not Madonna as in Sean Penn.
Neither Mr. Athena nor I are religious. I did, however, grow up Catholic, and a good friend and I used to giggle about the Madonna-in-a-Bathtubs that are common 'round here. When she was returning from Mexico about ten years ago, while waiting to go through customs there was a guy going from car to car, selling stuff. She spotted the Madonna and bought it for me.
I like it. It sits on my landing. But I’m sure more than a few people have wondered why Mr. Athena and I have a religious statue hanging around our house, since we’re both pretty rabidly anti-religion.
A rubberband ball bigger then a volley ball. I estimate it to have…wait, I’ll go weigh it.
:::runs to go get it:::
It weighs 11.4# on a scale that gives a different weight each time you step on it. I estimate it to have (can’t find the tilde)13,000 rubberbands on it.
A whole lot of clothes that fit no-one in this house: two bags of ‘fat’ clothes that are due to go to a neighbour so I cannot grow back into them, one bag of baby clothes and various baby knits in progress. My Bestest Friend Since Childhood is about to become a Grandmother.
An almost complete absence of representational art. You’d think we had some Islamic it-is-sin-to-imitate-the-likeness-of-Allah’s-creations thing going. We don’t. But I can’t afford any paintings I like.
In my living room, there is a country-style shelf supporting a stuffed moose wearing a scarf, a stuffed frog from a boardwalk game, and a plush Cthulu.
I acquired a 5 foot display poster on poster board of Harry Potter for the Goblet of Fire 2006 Calendar. It sits in front of our fireplace. At either end of the mantel clock are small statues of the Argonath from Lord of the Rings.
My mother, by her fireplace, has a three foot high statute of a Roman soldier that once was the base to a lamp. He’s holding a spear my stepdad made for him so he wouldn’t be empty handed. It is probably incredibly tacky, but I want it.
Three cars parked in the yard and a closed garage door. If they like cats, they will get invited in and see that the former garage is now the cat suite.