The Great Haiku Garage Giveaway #1
Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 12:01AM Welcome to the first ever Great Haiku Garage Giveaway. This week we have a duel giveaway: a useful tool and some ironic artwork.
First item is a Precision Die Cast P3 Laser Level, from Restoration Hardware. Don’t let the intimidating name scare you – it looks kinda retro and really cool. It comes with a tripod (with rubberized feet!), an adjustable knob to switch from horizontal to vertical leveling, and an Ultra Power 1500 feet projecting laser!! It’s new in the box, never been used. We have no idea where we got it. Maybe it was a gift. (If it was a gift from you we apologize.) Here’s what this nifty tool has to say for itself: “Frustrated no more in one's picture hanging, tile setting, shelf mounting, cabinet installing endeavors. Those aptly armed with the Precision Laser Level achieve new found craftsman status indeed.” (Perhaps for Mr P3, English is a second language.) It also includes batteries. Everything you will need to perfectly hang:
This framed print by California artist Sally Huss. It has been hanging in our house for several years, and here is what it says…
“What I love to do is not what I do, but what I wait to do after I do what I have to do in order to do what I love to. But, sometimes by that time there isn’t time to do it. So I’d be better off doing what I love to do in the first place.”
Wow! It only took 15 years of staring at this sage advice to finally do something about it!
Remember, post your Haikus in the comments section of this blog, and check back next Sunday to vote for this week's winner, and see next week's prize. For helpful hints and FAQs, look for the link at the top of the page.
Good luck - and Happy Haiku To You.
Bob & Brenna Redpath
And now for the voting. We've used a proprietary system, with algorithms programmed by a NASA scientist, to decide which Haikus would be selected for final voting. (We really just asked the kids.) Here they are. Thanks to everyone for playing along.
1. Power tools and art
Among my two fav'rite things
Need that advice now!
2. how to be clever
about three feet and a knob
while Bob quits his job
3. laser level me
sally huss says it the best
time to now begin
4. For many years now,
You've taken crap from others.
Now, to give it back!
Reader Comments (7)
Power tools and art
Among my two fav'rite things
Need that advice now!
you have nerves of steel,
to do what we wish we could,
and soar like eagles.
how to be clever
about three feet and a knob
while Bob quits his job
a poem for you
with a catchy little rhyme
means a print for me
laser level me
sally huss says it the best
time to now begin
Must have posted in the wrong place 1st time .. So here goes nothing:
For many years now,
You've taken crap from others.
Now, to give it back!
I'll take all your sh#t!
You won't have to pay postage
I'll just come get it.