Clank

That's the sound I imagine my framed "Partners" print made as it fell off the wall, bounced off the top of my fish tank, and hit the floor. We have zealous and energetic cleaning folk that come through here on weekends, making our offices clean and tidy, and one of their points of pride apparently is to dust the top of every framed thing on the walls, and leave them just a teeny bit cockeyed. It's just another assurance for us that they are doing a great job, getting it all looked after. Apparently they accidentally knocked this one all the way off a few weeks ago.

The print is nothing special, except to me. A friend gave it to me in our second year, as we were a little short on decor, and I liked it. I had it framed with a simple black molding, and sprung for the fancy non-glare glass. It's a 16 x 30 inch mounted print, of a bunch of pears in a basket. It says "Partners, Two or more that have joined together and share a common interest with each other", below the photograph. It's hung in my office since 1999, in sight of my desk. It's reminded me more than once that I owe so much to my two partners, Dave and Nick.

Amazingly enough, the expensive glass survived the trip to the floor intact, but somehow the stiff extruded aluminum frame did not. It got dinged and a little twisted, and there was no good way to bend it back flat without trashing the finish.

So off I went to our neighbor Colleen and she had her husband Garry cut me a new set of molding. I just put it back together and dug out a new picture hanger and just as soon as I finish this blog post I'm going to hang it back up above the fish tank.

These things take maintenance and a little extra effort at times, but it's totally worth it.

Thanks as always you guys.