Phil,
    I'm glad to hear that your Grandson is okay.

Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 10:16 AM
Subject: Grandson Report


> They came home last night about 11:45 PM.  Anthony, he is five and a half
> years old, had a total of 11 stitches on his head.  He fell while learning
> to ride his little bicycle without training wheels.  Sandy said he was
> amazingly brave and only cried a tiny little bit near the end when they
were
> sowing him up.  This happened about 7:30 last night as I recall.  Anthony
is
> adopted, as some of you know, and he was given away by his addict mother.
> He's a tough little boy though.  I guess it is time to get him a bicycle
> helmet now.  I wonder how we made it without such protective gear when we
> were growing up.  Man, I felt so many times, nearly missed getting hit by
> cars several times, and never broke a bone.  I had to cut the grass on our
> large, nearly an acre lot, when I was 6 and 7 years old and the mower had
no
> protective things built into it.  Thank God my dad never made me rake the
> grass all up, this was before grass catchers were invented, or I would
> complained to the child labor board.  This was a mandatory weekly
> responsibility or I would not get my quarter for my allowance that week.
>
> Phil.