It's Raining Pictures!

Question: where is one place in your house that you don't want to be when you hear a loud crash?

Answer: The shower. With conditioner on your hair.

So began my morning today. There I am, happily conditioning away, when out of nowhere comes a loud, prolonged crash. Loud enough and close enough that I thought my wall cabinet in the bathroom had taken a header. I cautiously opened the shower curtain and peered around my teeny, tiny bathroom. Nothing on the floor, and the cabinet was still in it's rightful place on the wall. Hmm....

I stepped out of the shower and opened the bathroom door. There, in the hallway, are two pictures that were hanging on the hallway wall. They are surrounded by seashells. The picture that had been hung the highest is a photo of The Weather Girls, formerly known as Two Tons of Fun. This photo is addressed to me and is autographed by Martha and Azora, the sisters who make up the singing duo who had a hit back in the day called "It's Raining Men." That is why I framed and hung it. Below that hung a photo of my father in the trombone section of a dance band back in the 50s. Peering up to the spots where they used to hang, I surmised what must have happened: Two Tons of Fun suddenly became too heavy for the hook. The hook let go, sending Martha and Azora sliding down to my dad. With my dad in tow, they made a detour to check out my basket of seashells that had been perched on a table directly below them, took the shells along for a ride, and then managed to come to some sort of gentle landing on the hardwood floor. Yeah, I said "gentle" because BOTH pieces of glass from the pictures were completely IN TACT. How weird (and cool) is that? I mean, usually falling glass meeting hardwood floor equals many shards of perile for bare feet! But it didn't happen in this case. Perhaps it was the benefit of the cushiony flesh provided by the singing sisters? Who knows.