Minions

Minions

It’s Saturday-Saturday! No work for David, at least none that he gets paid for. So, we divided our forces and split the party. Anne and I took Declan to the library. While Dave took Wyatt to the grocery store. This worked out pretty well, except Declan wanted to go to the grocery store too. He also wanted to go to the library but has not learned to replicate himself. Now, that’s a scary thought! On a Saturday morning, its children’s section was doing a pretty good business. We stayed for about two hours, until David called us home. We could have stayed longer, but this boy has a schedule to keep. I’ll leave you with a poem, My Mother Made a Meat Loaf by Jack Prelutsky:

My mother made a meat loaf that provided much distress, she tried her best to serve it, but she met with no success, her sharpest knife was powerless to cut a single slice, and her efforts with a cleaver failed completely to suffice.

She whacked it with a hammer, and she smacked it with a brick, but she couldn’t phase that meat loaf, it remained without a nick, I decided I would help her and assailed it with a drill, but the drill made no impression, though I worked with all my skill.

We chipped at it with chisels, but we didn’t make a dent, it appeared my mother’s meat loaf was much harder than cement, then we set upon the meat loaf with a hatchet and an axe, but that meat loaf stayed unblemished and withstood our fierce attacks.

We borrowed bows and arrows, and we fired at close range, it didn’t make a difference, for that meatloaf didn’t change, we beset it with a blow torch, but we couldn’t find a flaw, and we both were flabbergasted when it broke the power saw.

We hired a hippopotamus to trample it around, but that meat loaf was so mighty that it simply stood its ground, now we manufacture meat loaves by the millions, all year long. they are famous in construction, building houses tall and strong.

Framing Nature

The Flower Arranger/Early Summer, Anthony Green, 1982

Today, we took the T downtown and went to the Boston art museum. The boys went to daycare and Dave went into the office. Tomorrow, Maren returns late from the left coast. Plus, Declan has a playdate tonight, a pizza party. So, Dave will pick up the boys after work and whisk them away, probably until about their bedtime. We will be on our own for dinner tonight. All-in-all, a pretty easy day. Which is a good thing. Anne seems kind of tired today. Too much walking Puck, playing with Wyatt and arguing with Declan. Declan is in full no mode and that has really begun to grate on her. The show at the museum, was all about spring and gardening. This being the first day of Spring that seems appropriate. The weather was nice today, with a high in the fifties. Tonight, we’ll go to a nearby restaurant and have a quiet dinner for two and pick up some baby formula, because being a grandparent is a never-ending adventure, even on a day off.