Cubelandia was on land that was originally owned by the Avis family. The rental car company folks. Mr. Avis was dead by the time I worked there but some co-workers remembered him being driven around the park in a golf cart.

Thinking back, it wasn’t a bad business park. There were a lot of buildings but I think the tallest may have been three stories? Cubelandia was one story. There were also a number of ponds, man-made or not, I’m not sure. And a nature trail, although by the time we got bounced outta there (covid), it was overgrown and infested with ticks.

This was the only time I saw a sandhill crane walk through the “garden” along the side of the building.

The Metavante Vultures (turkey vultures) used to walk there frequently the first few years I worked at Cubelandia. There were always a bazillion geese and red-wing blackbirds used to crap on my side mirrors, and one day a couple of seagulls took a nap on my beloved old Ninja’s roof. And any number of other aminals and things that I won’t bore y’all with.

Of course, EVERYONE gathered in the lunch room to take pictures of this lovely bird. I think I was the first person at Cubelandia to own an iPhone (it was 2007 and people were kinda like, “Oh, can I touch it?”) but I certainly wasn’t the last as you can see.

The lovely woman on the left is retiring NEXT WEEK. Yikes! We will miss her greatly but she has worked there for 25 years and she is ready. The lovely woman in the middle is Building Mom, a “gem”, as my old boss the LSCHP called her. Despite much trying by my/her manager to find a role for her post covid, it didn’t work out. She managed a building, not a bunch of people working from home and scattered all over the globe. But she landed on her feet because she is a gem.

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