A poem for all (I think that you have never got, A poem as lovely as this zot)

me | 09/24/2005 | Creeper, as told to Joyce Killmore-Trolles

[Alice au Wonderland]

The husband has completed fabricating and installing built in bookshelves for the homeschooling room and is busily making another work table for his workshop. After that, it's making the storage/bed frames for all four children. It keeps him off the streets....

[Monkey Face]

Jergen's Lotion used to be almond oil-based. I quit buying it when it didn't smell like almonds any more.

[King Prout]

I have never noticed that pure almond oil has any odor.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yes.

You do want to finish it. One of the great points of the books is that the battle is not the war.

[Alice au Wonderland]

You said it, Brother. Holy CRAP, indeed.

Apparently, Ronan noticed it first and attempted to put it out by flapping his other blanket on the smoke. It did not occur to any of them to come get Mommy and Daddy. (The hubby and I speculate that they thought that they might get in trouble.) Well, the lamp is toast, literally. The comforter is trashed. The children have received the "You can't get into trouble for emergencies" lecture.

Oh, and now the hubby knows I mean it when I say that the bunk beds are hazardous. (The comforter fell from the top bunk onto the lamp.)

Dictum to husband: Dismantle bunk beds on your own, or I'll do it with an axe.

As the bunk beds are still assembled, I must leave you now to fetch the axe...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

we had to put out a small fire in the kids room caused by a down comforter smothering a lamp.;

LOL. Bet they don't do that again!

[Alice au Wonderland]

walp

Huh? A new "word" for my computerese dictionary.

[Alice au Wonderland]

Bet they don't do that again!

I sincerely hope not. Else, I'll use the fire to Bar-B-Q some youngsters!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I don't think I ever set a fire inside the house. Smoke from melting crayons on the kerosene heater yes but no open flames.

The yard however was prone to experiencing rogue lightning strikes that set tree, bushes, grass and my Polly Flinders dress on fire.

Happily I was not wearing it at the time.

[Alice au Wonderland]

I've never set a house on fire, either, although I did, in my youth, attempt to blow up a car. It's amazing that I survived to adulthood.

[Monkey Face]

I'm sure they used an enhancer in it, but that was part of why I liked it...because it smelled like almonds.

[Monkey Face]

"...One of the great points of the books is that the battle is not the war."

It never is...but I'll finish it, just because you say it's worth it.

I hope you're feeling better...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Blow up a car? This I have got to hear!

[King Prout]

"walp" is an old variant of "well"
just as "ayyuh" is of "ah, yes" or "yeah"

[King Prout]

you tried to blow up a car?
I thought that was MY job

[Alice au Wonderland]

Well, I went through a pyromaniac stage in fourth grade.

On the way to school one sunny morning, I noticed that one of the parked cars was leaking a fluid. Bear in mind that I had very little concept of the types of fluids that went into cars and I had no idea what function gasoline served for a car, only that my mother griped everytime she had to put more in.

Anyway, there it was, an experiment waiting to be performed. I found an old can, stuffed it with dried vegetation, set the vegetation on fire with my trusty, everpresent matches and shoved the can under the car, hoping to get it under the fluid leak. Mission accomplished.

After several seconds of staring at the car, it occurred to me that if the "experiment" worked, standing next to the blown up car, waiting to be apprehended was not a good idea. Notice that I feared going to jail; getting blown up along with the car had not crossed my tiny mind.

So, discretion being the better part of valor, and larceny, I ran for it. As I never heard an explosion, I assume that the "experiment" was a bust.

[Alice au Wonderland]

Gotcha.

[Alice au Wonderland]

My darling Prout, in some areas, I was light-years ahead of you.

[King Prout]

well, I never "tried" to blow up a car, that's true

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Oh you will find it enjoyable. I have confidence that good will ultimately trump but at a very high price.

This was not a book for the pre-teen crowd IMHO and neither are the two that follow.

I am feeling better then I was Friday and yesterday thank you. Should be fine by tomorrow.