Off the cuff

Years ago, Tony and I went to the Ponderosa Ranch, which is not really a ranch. It's the set where they made "Bonanza" back in the '60s.

It's over on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe. Or was. I heard it got bulldozed and turned into condos or a golf community or something.

Anyway the thing I remember about the Ponderosa Ranch, besides thinking "Thank the Lord there's ten square acres of the North Shore that hasn't been turned into condos and golf communities" was that the Ponderosa house seemed so much smaller than what I expected.

I mean, the house seemed huge on TV! But no. It's not. It's like the size of a Sizzler.

Well, except without the kitchen. Remember Hop Sing's kitchen? In real life, that thing was so tiny! It was like the kitchen in your first apartment. Well, except without the textured linoleum and burnt orange appliances.

The point being that I think maybe a lot of people in the kurttrue.com community might have the idea that the Pink House is this big huge place.

But it's not. Seriously.

It's one of those houses where, if you want to move one piece of furniture, you have to move about eight things to get to the thing you want to move, and then move all the eight things back in exactly the right order.

And every time you do this, you find stuff that you haven't seen for years.

Like for instance, this weekend as Jeffrey was helping me rearrange the bedroom furniture, I found my menu from Johnny's Fat Boy that had been missing since last November (as documented here on kurttrue.com)!

And then I'm putting the drawers back in this one dresser and I said, "Hey, Jeffrey look what I found! Handcuffs!"

And before I can say anything, he handcuffs himself!

And then I tell him "Dude, I didn't say I found the key!"

But he freed himself eventually. Thank the Lord for jumbo paperclips and shoddy handcuff craftsmanship.

Kurt "big daddy" True
25 october 2006