I do like the story.  I miss those days sometimes.  My little girls now 
seem to think I'm somewhat senile, but harmless.  Their significant 
others seem to retain a trace of concern for their safety when I'm 
around.  But I don't get direct challenges from any of them.

Now my darling son is another matter.

I hope it’s a cycle.  He wants to be a hippie, or a beat poet.  The 
past is so damned romantic once its sanitized.  And our lives are so 
fragile.








On Mar 4, 2004, at 10:30 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Eating with children is so much fun ; tonight after arriving at the 
> resturant (a local that doubles for a filling station )...my little 
> darling, in her summer whites  jumped into the biggest mud puddle she 
> could find.
>  This ain't garden dirt mud ;this is Mississippi gummo; a thick ooze 
> good for burying bodies( see voters rights 1964) .
>  I get her inside and the place is full of church ladies on their way 
> to see Mels movie; Peanut is balling as Im scraping off the mud ; they 
> look at me with that  distressed  "whatever did you do to that poor 
> little girl"
> Mary ; a stage siren of 4 ;eats it up when she hears pitty ;and goes 
> into the death scene from Camille
> Grrrr.....Im starving and Peanut pulls this? I whisper words 
> of caution into her precious ear that only da da's know how to do in 
> crisis.
> This suddenly  revives her before Mrs. Iknowjesus started 
> her kabuki of motherhood and the clean up of my  street urchin of a 
>  child.
> We were saved ; before leaving they asked me "if i had seen ...THE.. 
> movie" ? .....    
> "No ;but I read the book"..
> .this momentairly threw one of them off  to ask  "There was a book"?
>   Part 2
> Mary got one of those kid placemats with connect the dots;
>  this was the  brain tickler ..I thought id pass it on
> only I got to read  it through the spaggetti sauce
>  
> If a red house is made from red bricks,
>            a blue house is made from blue bricks,
>            a pink house is made from pink bricks
>            and a black house is made from black bricks,
>            what is a green house made from?
> ---
> -
> -
> -
> -
>         the answer was up side down...unfortunately i cannot do that 
> here.. 
>
> -
> -
> -
> -
>                        answer:    GLASS           Those that answered 
> correctly will get two more weeks of winter. Pyrate



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