The instructions accompanying her indicated that within 2-3 days we were to add a decoration and assist her in migrating to someone else's lawn. We added a necklace of Christmas tree ornaments and helped her fly to a neighbor, who added two more flamingoes and in the dead of night moved her to someone's front yard on a different street. She has two more weeks of travelling ahead of her before she ends up back on the originator's lawn.
Tonight is the winter solstice, which marks only the beginning of winter. One wonders what's yet to come...
What a great idea! Unfortunately I don't even know any of my neighbors-- after two years!
ReplyDeleteThe plastic pink flamingo is the city of Madison's official bird. The reason dates to the classic 1979 prank orchestrated by leaders of the Pail and Shovel Party, which were in charge of student government at the University of Wisconsin at the time. They organized the surprise placement of more than 1,000 pink plastic flamingos on Bascom Hill, the steep incline that leads to the dean's office.
ReplyDeleteStory here, for those unfamiliar with it -
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/artifacts/archives/001660.asp