EVERETT — Fremont has one. So do Ballard, Bainbridge Island, Vashon, Issaquah, West Seattle and Portland.

Now Everett has a troll.

His name is Jaspar.

What’s up with that?

A Herald reader spotted Jaspar in the Upper Ridge Road neighborhood in south Everett and sent me a photo.

“I was driving through this area and got a quick glimpse of this guy as I stopped at the stop sign,” he wrote. “So of course I went back to take another look and convince myself that I wasn’t going entirely off my rocker …”

I went to see for myself.

Sure enough, there he was, looming beside the road at the cul-de-sac beyond the stop sign, in front of a blue-and-yellow Minion-colored house.

He stood more than 6 feet tall, with 10 toes, eight fingers, seriously big feet, mutton-chop sideburns, a friendly wave and a face that looked a little like comedian Buddy Hackett.

The yard had bowling balls, garden stones, metal art and a vintage truck cab with pink flamingos. A stuffed chimp hung out in the breezeway.

So far, so good for What’s Up zing.

I knocked, not quite sure who — or what — I was going to find behind the door.

I was greeted by retirees Randy and Jana Compau.

Their home won a coveted Everett Monte Cristo “Pride of the Neighborhood” award a year ago for making the place exceptional.

Jaspar has been in the yard about a month — so new that Randy sent the mayor a photo that very morning, just to prove he wasn’t resting on his Monte Cristo laurels.

“I wanted her to know we are bringing some smiles,” he told me.

Randy and Jana bought the house on 76th Street SW in 2003.

“It was the ugly duckling,” he said.

“Major ugly duckling,” she added.

They set to work fixing up the 1926 house that once upon a time graced a chicken farm.

Randy, a former operations manager, comes up with the ideas.

“I just encourage him,” said Jana, a career special ed teacher. “I like anything quirky or unusual.”

The couple met in clown school.

What better place to meet your soulmate?

Three weeks later, they were engaged. Six weeks later, they were married at a Renaissance fair.

Now, 42 years later, they have four sons (Logan, Spencer, Jordan and Niles), five grandkids and a giant troll in the yard.

That brings us to Jaspar.

Randy wanted something big in front of the house.

He considered making a Bigfoot.

“But everybody has Sasquatches,” he said.

Good point.

There’s an 8-foot wooden silhouette of Bigfoot in a yard less than a mile away on Beverly Lane.

He and Jana had also made the popular troll-hunting trail around Washington and beyond. He said maybe that’s where the idea got into his brain.

But it gets better.

Jasper is the traditional gemstone for 42 years of marriage.

Romantic!

Actually, it was by chance. Randy had already named the troll after a gnome in the 1967 Disney movie “The Gnome-Mobile.”

And he spells it Jaspar, not Jasper.

I’m so glad he pointed that out to me. I’d hate to have to run a correction for spelling a troll’s name wrong.

There was no master plan.

“I learn as I go,” Randy said. “I had these ideas about how to shape him.”

He built Jaspar with Styrofoam, cement-fiber sculpting mixture, rebar and epoxy resin, then dressed him in burlap he scored on clearance at Hobby Lobby.

The whole project cost about $1,000, head to toe.

“I made it on the cheap,” he said. “I tried to make him hairy without making him look furry. He looks like a Hobbit.”

Randy studied pictures of trolls while shaping Jaspar’s face, but the sculpture developed a personality of its own, à la Buddy Hackett.

He put Jaspar on a base so he could mow the grass without accidentally mowing his toes.

Before taking up residence in the yard, Jaspar made the rounds at the Silvana, Skagit and Stanwood fairs, where he collected best-of-show ribbons and a trophy.

And a check for $3.

Randy hasn’t cashed it yet.

Getting a 6-foot troll with a 35-pound head to the fairs required some disassembly.

“I had to take off his head to lay him down in the truck,” Randy said.

Naturally.

Jaspar is available for appearances.

Randy talked about taking him to poetry and music events downtown, where sons Logan and Spencer participate. He said his chiropractor suggested contacting a cousin who owns a pumpkin farm.

I didn’t ask whether a chiropractor went along with lugging a 35-pound troll head around.

Randy isn’t finished.

Jaspar is too handsome to be alone.

A girlfriend is in the works.

Her name is Opal.

That’s the gemstone for 43 years of marriage.

So, Herald readers, be on the lookout for a troll couple.

GIANT TROLL HUNT

Jaspar is the latest addition to the Pacific Northwest’s growing troll community.

And at 6 feet, he’s practically a runt. The giant trolls around Washington range from 12 to 20 feet tall.

Seattle’s Fremont Troll has been clutching a Volkswagen Beetle beneath the Aurora Bridge since 1990. It predates Danish artist Thomas Dambo’s troll brigade, which includes Pia the Peacekeeper on Bainbridge Island, Jakob Two Trees in Issaquah, Frankie Feetsplinter in Ballard, Bruun Idun in West Seattle, Oscar the Bird King on Vashon Island and Ole Bolle in Portland.

And the troll crowd is about to get bigger.

This fall, a dozen more Dambo trolls are scheduled to be on exhibit at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium and Northwest Trek Wildlife Park.

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