Monday, December 16, 2019

THE NAKED GIRL IN THE BEAR CLAW FOOT BATHTUB





I guess I knew who Frodo was back then, but I didn't think I'd see her naked, taking a bath in one of those old-time porcelain bathtubs with bear claws.
But there she was, Frodo, a naked girl who could have fallen out of a Botticelli painting.

The kitchen was right next to the bathroom.
All present in the apartment were as usual in the kitchen, waiting to eat, or preparing food, so we saw Frodo, and she saw us, with no shame or complaint.

She wasn't doing that much bathing.

Just sitting.

Soaking up the moment.

Richie was the name of her boyfriend.
He looked like a big mouse.
He had a long nose.
And like a mouse, he had whiskers that made him look like a mouse.
He even had a squeaky voice.
I couldn't figure out what Frodo saw in him.
Oh well, one doesn't always know what makes humans do what they do.

The main activity of Richie was growing his pot plants. I mean, I don't think he did anything else.
Well, he smoked cigarettes. And he complained all the time that there wasn't anything to eat. He never bought food, but he sure could eat the food of others.

Frodo and Richie were just one more scene from within the Boulder Bohemian apartment on Pearl Street where I lived off and on for a number of years.

The building had allegedly once been a brothel,
and the apartment where I lived was once in a flood, and under water.
There were quite a few floods in Boulder. The following years refer to the major floods in Boulder County’s recorded past as noted in Boulder’s Floods and Flood Management: Past & Present, City of Boulder 2016:
1844, Month unknown
1864, May and June
1876, May
1894, May
1897, June
1909, July
1914, June

One day Frodo and Richie left, going somewhere else.




IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND THE NAKED GIRL IN THE BEAR CLAW FOOT BATHTUB