Monday, July 29, 2013

7/29/13

Adelaide had been warned by her mother countless times not to drink and drive her hobby horse.  Sadly, it took one chipped tooth, a skinned knee and a hopelessly cracked iced tea tumbler before the message was finally driven home.
Scruffles was very particular about where he "did his business," requiring Barney to have to dress for the occasion each morning.  Barney was so used to this aggravating exercise that it slipped his mind to inform Chip that this might not be the very best place to swim at the moment...
Company had begun to arrive and the baked beans were nearly done, which really put the pressure on Thelma Jean to get that hand-knitted table trivet finished in time to save her dining room table from being scorched.
Thaddeus always loved to "go for a ride" but even he was staggered by what Jesse could do with a dune buggy and a stretch of ostensibly smooth sand.
Clarisse and Vivian were game for roughing it on their road trip, but soon began to tire of Merv's penchant for hoarding all the toilet paper for himself.
It became painfully clear to Herbert as he posed with little Emily that building a snowman at the community dog park was, perhaps, not the greatest idea he and Emmeline had ever come up with...

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