For those who’ve been asking, no, we don’t yet have the monkey standing up. I hope it will happen soon, though – we plan to work on him this winter. It’s not so easy as you might think!
Remember when we moved the monkey? Though we aren’t sure exactly, current estimates put him at about 10,000 pounds of concrete and metal (that’s without the kids or lights, above!) so it will require some serious engineering. Luckily, I know lots of engineers who also happen to be fans of the monkey!
Though it’s exciting to me, I was a bit surprised at how exciting this operation has been to lots of other people. We made the newspapers (Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Citizen) and I’m told the monkey was also on tv last week. The big move was Saturday. Just in case anyone else ever… Continue Reading
Yesterday I posted a note that I had just adopted a giant concrete monkey statue from Magic Carpet Golf. It didn’t even occur to me at that time that people might think I was joking – that it was all one big April Fool’s Joke. But I wasn’t joking, and YES, I really did just… Continue Reading