Thanks for the links Molly. I will get to them when I return.
I am off to the shower. I have a meeting at 9:00 and a lunch appt to follow. I will return mid afternoon. Play nicely in my absence.
Everytime you post that I'm reminded of the things my brother and I did when we were younger.
So many....but the two that stick out...are:
We loved water balloons. We lived in the "projects". Mom's and Dad's bedroom was second story with a front window. Choice pickins when our friends walked by. We pelted them with water balloons.
Needless to say, we knew all heck would break loose if mom found all that water in her bedroom. We mopped it all up to the last drop. Whew!! We are safe!! Mom would come home. Hmm..so far so good....UNTIL she goes into the bathroom. I can still recall her words..."You've been throwing water balloons again, eh"?
Well, hit us with one...our jaws dropped. We looked at each other with the look of "How the heck did she know?"
Guess what? One of the rims of a balloon was mistakenly left on the bathroom faucet. Dang! She was good...real good. ;-)
The second ....which is appropriate for this time of year..is mom always warned us that if we ever soaped windows while trick or treating we would be in deep doo doo. So we never did.
One year we got the urge, but back in our minds was her saying, "if you ever soap someone's windows...!!"
Okay, there was a little leeway in that statement or demand or command.
Oh, the intelligence of a older brother who was 9 and a younger sister of 8 could probably fit in a thimble. LOL
You must remember..the urge was there. Other's did it. Yes, we heard the " well, if so and so jumped off a bridge would you?" Still, it was overpowering.
So....we soaped our own windows and screens knowing that we would have to clean them...LOL