The Three Blue Chairs + 1

So this isn’t really an art related post today, but thanks to my daughter’s eye and imagination, and my tendency to snowball any given situation, was too fun not to share. It’s the impromptu and unlikely story of three blue chairs and one purple chair.

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Once upon a time there were three chairs. The three chairs had many common characteristics and similar interests. They all had the same rounded backs, and were very very blue. They also shared a love of the outdoors, mostly hanging out in the backyard. They were very supportive when someone needed them, and often times helped with chores around the yard when items needed to be hung and dried.

Then one day, a purple chair took a seat next to two of the blue chairs. The two blue chairs were happy to have a new friend in their seating arrangement and took it in with open arm rests. However, the third blue chair was not amused and refused to join in, keeping its distance from the seemingly oblivious trio. The third blue chair did not trust this new “friend” with the square back and curious shade of purple. It only knew that its two blue buddies had taken in this…this…purple stranger.

So the three chairs – the two blue and one purple – sat side-by-side in the cool of the large shade tree. And the stubborn third blue chair sat alone in the hot-hot sun where it grew very-very lonely.

And the Moral of the Story is…no one wants to sit in the hot seat so you better play nice.

 

(And this is what happens when we move the chairs to the middle of the yard so we can spray paint them :-)