Jurassic parking

According to Wikipedia, Sinclair Oil's famous mascot is a brontosaurus, not an allosaurus or a diplodocus as some have written. The internet is a bit unclear on this topic. I grew up thinking "brontosaurus," and so it will always be to me. Us pre-Jurassic Park kids weren't all that familiar with the many varieties of "terrible lizard." Like their mascot before them, Sinclair filling stations, if not already there, are on the road (as it were) to extinction.*

Those gas prices are as extinct as the dinosaurs themselves. Digitized color print, August 1986.

It rained on and off most of the day yesterday. Nothing serious. We do have a rain gutter issue to deal with. We have a blocked downspout, resulting in a gutter that overflows. We can make it flow with a bottle (or two) of liquid drain cleaner, but that means leaning out a window to pour it into the gutter and watching as it makes its way to the downspout at the corner of the house. I will not get onto a ladder to reach the downspout on the second story. That's work for the pros who are younger and more nimble than moi.

* Wikipedia tells me that the company went defunct in 2022, broken up and acquired by other corporations. Or something like that. It gets complicated.