From May 19, 2009

I sunburned my neck terriby on Sunday cleaning sod out of my front garden while my granddaughter watered my flowers. She is 4 and of course waters the blossom itself with her little watering can. Time is precious with her so I let her do exactly as she wants. At one point she was going to pour water on this silly upholstered floor level TV chair we had brought outside for her, and I thought I should exert some authority so I said, no don't do that. She looked into my face with consternation. "I have to QUEEN it, Gramma!" I could see it wasn't queen, what with the cat hair and all, so I caved in and let her queen it.

Update in August:  She loves to do dishes and I said, "Let's queen them."  Esther barked back at me, "Not QUEEN them, Gramma, we have to KEEN them!"

June 28, 2998 I mean er ling ling geo nian

No 852 bus on Sunday! I had to make up 2 hours this weekend and walked from Northtown. I have seen interesting sights. There is a white pine behind a fence by Half-Price Books which is surrounded by weedy willows. The willows have pine cones. The pine cones are strung by yarn from the willows.  A mysterious gift from someone who climbed the fence.  Today a killdeer was running along the road between Aldi and Outback. She ran in front of me and feigned injury, flopping over to show a pink chest that looked like a nice piece of meat. I knew then there were chicks nearby and there they were, running on their tiny legs down the curb. Three of them. I walked around the killdeer so she could be nearer to her chicks, and she ran at them yelling "Run, run, run!" So cute. On the way back (still without an 852) I saw some older babies that were not too afraid of me.