Ok, Beth, you got me on sentence structure!  Anyway, I was about thirteen.
We had a small orchard behind the house and the ripe fruit would attract
starlings.  My dad would let me shoot them with a pellet gun (under
supervision, of course), but, being a latchkey kid I figured it would be fun
to do a little "bird hunting" in the time before my parents got home.

"Well", says I, "If 1 pellet = 1 bird, think how many I could get with a
shotgun!"  Mind you, I was not only shooting unsupervised, I was also
shooting from inside the house, out the patio door!  Long story short, I got
the shotgun down, put the shell in and when I closed the chamber....BOOM!  I
had it pointed right at the front window!

Things were not good in my world for a long time after that...

-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth H. Thiers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:35 AM
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Subject: RE


Ah, the computer is finally behaving again for awhile so, now I'll have to
give up some of my tricks of the trade.  Hotwheels and their cheaper makes
are great little toys for kids on so many levels.  We often have the kids
put them up on a slant and roll them down, good for visual tracking,
building shoulder strength.  Overall it's a way to assess play and
imagination skills.  Sometimes we're teaching play skills to kids you don't
know how.  You can also run the cars through paint and make really cool car
pix, then you have to clean them with shaving cream in the car wash you
know.

Of course, I still want to know how Kyle flew out the window.

Beth the OT
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