RUN! We Are No Match For Sting!

Saturday night was Sarah's sleepover with her friend Scottie and several other girls doing the girl things of hide and seek, face painting, etc … after Saturday afternoon when Jeffrey had his pre-birthday party at Oak Park with some of his school friends (his birthday is July 2^nd so we thought this a good idea) … and Saturday morning before that I brought Jeffrey to another friend's birthday party. So they got pretty well fed and well tired out, which pleases me.

Every year, the moon moves an inch and a half farther from Earth.

Sunday morning after church where we celebrated Pastor Janet's twenty-fifth anniversary in active ministry and twentieth anniversary at Bethany Lutheran, we held a Sunday school picnic (indoors for it was raining outside) with the biggest hot dogs we'd seen and all the trimmings and played a variety of kids' games, Martha and the kids and I went to Ground Round restaurant where the kids between eleven am and two pm pay what they weighed – well, WE paid 78 and 66 cents for them –

Climb it in December: The Eiffel Tower gets nearly 7 inches taller in hot weather.

while Martha on Mother's Day spun the bonus wheel and won a free dessert. She chose some deep fried Oreos and we spent some time at home before getting the kids to Grandma and Grandpa's because they wanted to have a sleepover with Josceline their cousin (on a school night, but it still worked!) and then that left Martha and me at home. By ourselves. And we kept the house standing, I can assure you …

Sapphires and rubies are chemically identical in every way … except for their color.

Finished Uncle John's Electrifying Bathroom Reader For Kids Only (ISBN 1592230210) yesterday that I'd gotten a few days ago and I'm excerpting throughout this piece, and it's a smaller of the mega-sized paperbacks that I don't read ONLY in the bathroom, but it's a lot of fun in there! And the best writing style goes to another Year of Biography standout that I finished this morning, Michael Coren's J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Who Created The Lord of the Rings (ISBN 0439342503), witness this:

“Tolkien read in almost every spare moment, and was careful about what he read. There was no television, of course, and not very much radio. Movies? Not really for him. He didn't even look at the newspapers very often, believing that the passing fashions of the century were no basis for truth. Literature and history were of far more interest and importance. This is not to say that he hid away from the modern world, just that he thought it could be better comprehended by understanding the past instead of dwelling on some of the more unimportant aspects of the present.”

That's what I believe too. Perhaps I should re-read my Tolkien.

David