So, I’m buying a car and the salesman asks where I lived before Oregon. I told him New York and he asked if I was a Yankee’s fan. I, of course, told him that I was a Red Sox fan. He gave me a strange look and said, “That’s like being from Utah and not being a Mormon.”
Fresh Air
If the car is parked in the sun for a bit and it gets a little warm inside, Harper urgently tells us to turn on the air conditioner by saying, “Turn on the fresh air.” I’ve always liked the cooler and wetter climate of the Pacific Northwest, and, apparently Harper is a fan as well. On a recent trip to Utah, we walked outside and Harper started moaning, “Turn on the fresh air.”
I’m assuming she meant getting into a car, then turning on the air conditioner.
Mona Lisa
I saw this in Julia’s room and asked her what the story was. She replied, “My teacher told me no one knew if Mona Lisa was happy or sad — I think she’s just hungry.”
Harper’s Princess Phase
Harper recently saw Sleeping Beauty and really liked it. There is one problem: she calls it “Pissin Booty.” It also turned her on to a whole world of other pissin things. She wanted pissin jammies, she wants to watch “pissin” movies, and she made the desktop on Claire’s phone a “pissin.”
Hi Rick,
Sorry about the first name basis, but I still can’t bring myself to use your last name. Quick question: is your website supposed to look like this?
Is it meant to be an expression of how far to the right you are — differentiate yourself from all those left-aligned or centrist websites out there?
Sincerely,
Rich
Essay Contest
Weston’s class was asked to write an essay about a school rule they would like to change. This was Weston’s submission…
Beyond Our Control
I called the IRS yesterday and got the following message:
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we cannot answer your call.
That’s it. No “leave a message and we’ll call you back” or “call back during regular business hours”…What does this mean?
A Type of Rodent
Julia: On our hike we saw a skeleton!
Rich: What kind of skeleton?”
Julia: I think it was a stoat, but I’m not 100% sure.
Rich: A what?
Julia: A stoat…but I’m not sure.
Rich: What’s a stoat?
Julia: You know, a stoat, S-T-O-A-T. It’s a type of rodent.
Rich: What did I tell you about using words I don’t know? Just say “rodent.”
A finity
Conrad was doing a bunch of addition problems to impress everyone. He said, “A thousand plus a thousand is two thousand. Infinity plus infinity is two finity.
Dragonflies
Today Julia saw two dragonflies “marrying.”