Pom Pom Wall? Indeed!

November 22, 2025

That Monkey! 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

Via Newspapers.com 🙈 🙈 🙈 🙈 🙈 🙈 🙈 Sometimes, it's just one of those days. The "Miami News," December 5, 1951: As the wife of Ben Grenald told him on the telephone, it was a riot. There was a monkey in a tree. Grenald was at the Moderne pharmacy at 555 41st St., Miami Beach. He owns it. The wife, Selma, telephoned from her home at 5130 Alton Rd. "Come on home, Ben," she said. "This is a real riot. You'll die." Patrolman John Ward was called by Mrs. Grenald, too. banana nose in movie 🍌 He was dancing around under the tree with a bunch of bananas trying to get the monkey down. The monkey was swinging around like Tarzan. All the kids in the neighborhood were around whooping and laughing. That was when the Grenalds' boy, Douglas, got into the red ants. Two-year-old Douglas screamed. So did his sister and his little cousins and the kids from the neighborhood. Grenald dunked him in the tub. Then he and Mrs. Grenald and Douglas went ...

Their Proudest DIY: The Pom-Pom Wall. "It started off as a seemingly simple idea that I (Ian) found on Pinterest on a much smaller scale (this is the original inspo, just for comical size comparison) and then Troy basically said “that’s cute but I want it to be… the whole wall.” We eventually compromised on a size (about a 5′ x 5′ square) and set to work. Every single pom-pom on that wall was hand made (mostly by us but we enlisted some additional friend hands on occasion) and it look three months (on and off) and about five trips to the yarn store. We nearly drove ourselves insane trying to get it done but it really ties the whole place together and we can’t help but smile every time we look at it."