Aaron Landry

Tag Archives: gnome

My Lawn Gnome is Home!

My Lawn Gnome is Home!, originally uploaded by Aaron Landry.

After a long and winding three month journey, my lawn gnome is now home. Along with him he had a small Trollfjorden pack from IKEA that is just his size! Inside was a bunch of treats and trinkets such as a brochure from Niagara Cave, an Alien, smashed pennies, one of them from the Spam museum and a bunch of other things that mark various parts of his travels. Wow, what a treat. Speaking of treats, he had some Cloetta Kexchoklad and he let me have two of them. Quite yummy!

Everyone asks me if I know who was helping the gnome in his travels. Honestly I don’t have any proof. What I do have though, is a large footprint from one of his fellow travelers and check out who takes photos with a Kodak EasyShare Z730 in Minneapolis and posts on Flickr. Looks like my lawn gnome and primarily one other person. My gnome hasn’t said a word, though. Also, those gnomes that showed up behind my house? I think they’re unrelated! I have yet to introduce them to my lawn gnome on the other side of my house.

Either way, regardless of who’s responsible for helping out, my gnome and his friends got a fantastic three month journey and I’m very glad he’s home.

¶ Posted 24 December 2007 § Miscellaneous ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged:

Visiting Gnomes

New Gnome, originally uploaded by Aaron Landry.

This gnome and his two friends showed up on my back porch today. None of them are my lawn gnome which is still wandering around doing strange things, most recently taking a trip on the Brackett Rocket and somehow ending up in Macy’s Nutcracker display.

He also recently visited my sister and brother-in-law’s house and left them a note. I’m glad my sister took it in good humor; I figured she might be a bit freaked out when a photo of my lawn gnome visiting their house showed up on the Internet.

I can’t help to think that these three gnomes are somehow related to my missing gnome. Maybe they were expecting him here. Or maybe they were here to send me a message. Perhaps holiday greetings. I don’t really know.

Seriously, I am not kidding. I do not know what’s going on.

¶ Posted 21 December 2007 § Miscellaneous ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged:

My Gnome!

Don Shelby Bouncing Some Ideas, originally uploaded by Aaron’s Lawn Gnome.

For Christmas one year, my sister gave me a gnome which I put in front of my house. After a year or so, he became faded and aged so my aunt Laura in February of this year freshened him up to a condition that was even better than when I originally met him.

Then I had a party and he mysteriously (well, presumably) left with someone. While digging through photos from the pillow fight yesterday I decided to click on the WCCO tag on Flickr which lead me to my gnome wandering around the WCCO studios with Mark Rosen and Don Shelby! What the heck?

I then found that Aaron’s Lawn Gnome has a blog. He recently visited Glockenspiel, visited some of his relatives in Dawson and saw Olivia, Minnesota where I just was a couple months ago.

I almost started crying! I miss my gnome a lot but I’m glad he’s taking a little tour and not being gnomenapped by some 16-year-olds in my neighborhood like I thought may have happened.

This is fantastic. Whoever is all helping my gnome get around safely are great people. A friend of my gnome is a friend of mine. Now I need to catch up with my gnome…

UPDATE: From my gnome’s Flickr page you can see the Stoop Group he created as well as some of his favorites. ROFL.

P.S. If you’re commenting with an obnoxious name, fake email address and pointing to a domain registration service, I’m going to treat the comment like spam even if it is coming from a computer using Qwest in Minneapolis.