Fun for your Friday, number 19

Cano's Castle of Antonito, Colorado

This house — or tem­ple — is in the remote town of Antonito, Col­orado. We passed through there in March and I thank­fully saw it from High­way 285, even though it’s maybe half a mile from the main road.

I was amused at the arch across the entrance: “ALCOHOL+TOBACCO IS KILLS” and “MARY JANE IS HEALING.” The cre­ator of this west­ern Grace­land is or was quite pro­lific. Every sur­face of both spires is iron­i­cally cov­ered with the ends of beer cans.

Thanks to Wikipedia, I dis­cov­ered that this is “Cano’s Cas­tle,” built by Don­ald “Cano” Espinoza.

Fun for your Friday, number 18

A cat with a remote controlIt’s hard to oper­ate a remote when you’re asleep.

Fun for your Friday, number 17

Schick 12-blade razorSo, Schick keeps adding blades to their razors.

Why not 12?

(Just a hol­i­day gift idea for that guy in your life.)

Fun for your Friday, number 16

Relaxed catTake a les­son from the cat, my child.

Our cat is the most relaxed crea­ture in the world. He can sleep just about any­where. He has to, in order to get his required 23 hours of sleep each day.

Fun for your Friday, number 15

Artwork similaritiesMy nephew Tijs (roughly pro­nounced, “Tace”) is an amaz­ing artist. The apple does not fall far from the tree; his mom (my sis­ter Amy) is an artist too.

When Amy sent me this lit­tle metal piece and his art­work, I couldn’t help but notice the similarities.

New toothpaste

Lush Cosmetics Shopping BagNewer vis­i­tors at Shiny Bits of Life may not know that I also run The Inter­na­tional Tooth­paste Museum.

The lat­est paste is one of the most unique — from Lush Cosmetics.

And just to throw you off, I’m not show­ing the paste here but rather the shop­ping bag it came in. (Thanks, Amy!)

Fun for your Friday, number 14

I enjoyed see­ing this dad with his three triplet sons — all on leashes and all with mon­key back­packs. (I took the shot in Austin in March 2011.)

Name three bands or musicians that you hope to see live some day

I’m not going to answer. How­ever, I will tell you one band I wish I had seen, back in about 1976... Lit­tle Feat. Their two albums, The Last Record Album and Feats Don’t Fail Me Now were incredible.

Alas, I won’t see them live now. I’m gen­er­ally not into see­ing old bands in their cur­rent forms. Most of the time, they are a sad shadow of their for­mer selves. My son saw U2 a few weeks ago. I would have gone to that show, except for how I greatly pre­fer see­ing live music in much smaller settings.

By the way, I would love to hear your answer to which three bands or musi­cians you would like to see. (And thanks to Plinky for that great prompt.)

Emergency chocolate

This bar appeared in our nearby Big Lots. I couldn’t resist.

You never know when you must have choco­late.

Poll results

I’m not sure if you saw that lit­tle link. If you click that link on yesterday’s poll, you can see the lat­est results.

I know you were wondering.