Yesterday, we saw a new bird sitting in our tree. He was sitting there so peacefully....until he started chasing a blue jay who was hiding out in our bushes. They were the same size, but that poor jay was so scared. He kept calling for help. Who wants to be eaten? The jay new he could stay safe if he kept flitting around in the bushes, but if he were to venture out into the open, the falcon would have gotten him in a matter of seconds. I didn't want to see how it would end, so we left.
One of the things I miss most about Utah is my little sister, Jill. I don't think she intentionally tries to be funny, but--oh my goodness--she says the most hilarious things. I like to keep mini-quotebooks of the funny things people say, and if I still lived with Jill, I'm sure hers would be long enough to publish by now. Here is the most recent one from an e-mail:
For me, finishing the Book of Mormon was kind of a surprise, because about a third or fourth of my paperback copy is just the index thing. I didn't realize how close I was to the end until I read "THE END". And here are some old favorites: "Don't eat [the cookie batter]! It has rotten eggs in it!" (age 5) "mucus mucus mucus...." (age 10) "Beware: the G is hungry." (age 10, while stuffling little magnetic foam letters on the fridge into the big letter 'G') Jill: "Why doesn't anyone ever listen to me?" Jody: "Ya gotta use catchy words." two minutes later... Jill: "Nude! Nude nude nude!!!" (age 11) "It says, 'Glides on clear,' but is there anything that like, glides on purple?" (age 11, in the deodorant aisle in Wal-Mart) (while Stephanie was in Taiwan for the summer) Jody: "What garbage do you want to take out? Upstairs or downstairs?" Jill: *whine* "Can we just leave it until Stephanie gets home? We can just like...uh...buy more garbage cans." |
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