Thursday, June 17, 2010

About the summer...

And summer hours.  I'm loving them.  Really.  Now don't get the idea that I'm not working but let's just say that things are a little more relaxed so far in the month of June!  I have harvested the infamous thistle patch in the side yard and reclaimed the land that I've been trying to pass off as part of my neighbor's yard.  I'd hate to have people think those were my weeds.  The dogs are back on their summer morning walk regime.  I was told by the vet that Cleo, aka The Fatness, was a bit plump.  Summer schedule allows for both running in the morning AND a dog walk.  We'll see if she slims down.  If not, we're resolved to the fact that she's a lot cuter when she's fat even if she sometimes makes funny pig-like noises when she breathes.  Can you have sleep apnea when you are awake?

What's the most fun though is having MR and Will home.  Mary Rollins has been at ballet the last two weeks but Will has had two weeks of nothing but playing with friends.  I felt badly about his current lack of activity (as I may have previously mentioned)  but I do believe that children with nothing to do lends to the development of their creativity.  In fact, just this morning Will asked if he and his friends could use the glue gun. 

Ummm....why?

We're making air-soft grenades?  Where's the aluminum foil?

About 20 minutes later, I heard an "Oh Crap!" in the backyard.  I was assured all was well by a boy holding a box of matches and another boy with a handful of bottle rockets. 

And, a minute ago, I saw three 12-year old boys dragging a big plastic wagon across the backyard. One of them has a shovel.  I wonder if I should be worried as I just picked them up from watching the new A-Team movie.  Apparently, it was THE BEST movie any of them had ever seen.  I'm having flashbacks to a little Williamson family incident where my brother pistol-whipped me after watching Wild Wild West. 

Oh...Will says he was just getting the shovel to put it back in the garage. Huh?  (I think I might suggest they play XBox.

Next week, we're going to Holiday World on Monday for Will's birthday party (I'll have to tell you about Holiday World if you've never been) and then Will's going with some cousins to our Tennessee lakehouse.  Mary Rollins was invited to go too, but for some reason, she was really excited about being home alone.  Without any 12 year-old boys. I can't imagine why. 

3 comments:

Peddie said...

I think you should write a book. For real.

I snorted much like the Cleekster upon reading "aka The Fatness" and must agree than even her little piggy snoring makes her cute.

Gwennie said...

If you're curious...The Fatness hasn't lost any weight so her cute quotient remains high. We are celebrating her 4th anniversary of having escaped from the humane society this weekend! Which makes me think two things:

1. Who in their right mind takes home a dog that jumps on a rolling chair in the humane society office and crashes it into a wall?

2. How could anyone have ever mistreated that little goofus?

Peddie said...

Ok... I'm going to take that as a personal lesson that I must swallow my sip of water before reading anything from you or anyone else in this family before reading... I almost spurted it out after reading that rolling chair incident... oh her cute quotient! It just keeps soaring!

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