Idiocy

John told me to post this one. I’ll grant that it’s funny, but it’s no better than most of our conversations….. Last night, while we were lying in bed reading, a border collie launched herself onto us and licked me in passing. This is a normal occurrance. What made it funny was that I yelped….

Thank you Alan, Sean and Bob….

…. for teaching my two-year old to say that she’s “getting tail”. Even in the context of a mermaid song, it’s a bit odd to hear her say it. She likes the rest of the album too, by the way.

Things you don’t question

Why did my daughter take a fish net and a strip of blue fabric to bed with her for her nap and why did she say that’d she’d dance with clay later?

The State of the Union…. undressed? redressed?

Toad Lilies Photos by VickyTH. There are times in a marriage when you realise that somehow, you’ve made the right choice in a partner. (There are other times when you want to dig their crusty, smelly socks out from under the chair and put them somewhere unlit, but this blog entry isn’t about those times.)…

Occasional glimpses that we’re doing something right

Praise: Yesterday, as I was working on a few details of the prototype of the new ornaments, I showed Katherine what I’d done. She was fascinated, as she usually is with anything that anyone makes, and wanted to “help”. I gave her the job of Bead Helper (which, in case you didn’t realise it, means…