“Basically, writing speculative fiction is all about hanging lampshades on porcupines.” — Daniel Lowd
Bees in Our Ears
Wesley has been inspecting all of our ears to see if bees live in them.
Of Ducks and Pillows
Elaine is doing the tango with a pillow. Now she claims she’s going to turn the pillow into a duck — by throwing it and shouting, “quack, quack, quack!”
If Wishes Were Horses
I wish I could train the dogs to clean the house and the cats to cook.
Trees and Cameras
The advantage of a semi-broken camera: I get a shiny new camera, but the old one still works well enough to hand it to Elaine and say, “Go, have fun!”
Right now, she’s filming herself chanting about how much she loves pizza.
“The most important rule of tree climbing is “have fun.” If you’re not having fun, get out of that tree! Unless there’s a unicorn stuck at the top. Then you have to help that unicorn, even if it isn’t fun.” — Elaine
Brown Sugar and Treasure Hunt
No school day = I come downstairs to find paper taped everywhere with instructions for a treasure hunt and brown sugar all over the kitchen.
Interestingly, the brown sugar is not directly related to the treasure! The brown sugar was for the kid’s oatmeal. The treasure hunt is an early birthday present for Daniel. So, unless the early birthday present is also a bowl of oatmeal, I don’t think they’re connected at all.
E-Reader and Baby
With an e-reader, the baby can’t pull my bookmark out. But he can flip to a random page and change the text to a really tiny, weird font.
A Better Path to Infinite Kittens
“There’s someone I’d like you to meet–” Elaine holds her empty, cupped hands toward me. “My imaginary kitten, Snowy!”
Normal Activities
Listening to Little Shop of Horrors and printing out the latest Shreddy story to take in to my critique group on Tuesday…
Children’s TV Shows
Things I’ve learned about children’s TV shows this week: Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood is creepy with all of its parodies of the voices Mr. Rogers used to do; the Cat in the Hat show annoys me a lot; and the Curious George show is surprisingly okay.