Friday, January 23, 2009

Oh Happy Day!

My two grandchildren, a 13 year old girl and an 8 year old boy, are out of school today because of parent-teacher conferences. Guess where they are. Right. Here at my house. Hot wheel tracks are all over my kitchen counter and floor. "Mimi, look! Mimi, watch!" I'm called to watch one hot wheel wreck and catastrophe after another. At the moment, a disagreement seems to be developing about how to arrange the hot wheel tracks. Will it escalate into a major argument? Suspense! We shall see.

My granddaughter went to the orthopedist today for a check on whether her broken arm is healing properly. It is, and, in two and one half weeks, she will have her splint removed from her arm and a smaller splint applied. She has not needed a plaster cast, because her arm is healing well as is, with what was to be a temporary splint.

I'm assigned to the laptop computer, because the little, and not so little, people take over the desktop periodically. Blogging may be light.

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  1. "Mimi, look! Mimi, watch!" I'm called to watch one hot wheel wreck and catastrophe after another."

    Is that really so different from us, your regular blog readers?

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  2. Counterlight! Welcome back. Did you have a great time? I know you did.

    Is that really so different from us, your regular blog readers?

    Not really. And that's not counting the trolls!

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  3. I had a wonderful time; great hosts, great art, and great food for 5 days.

    It looks like you've been fighting off trolls in my absence.

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  4. I leave for a week and everything gets redecorated and the trolls start acting out.

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  5. There's a lesson in there for you, Counterlight. Your country needs you.

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  6. Glad things are well with your family. Learn lots here, just googled for 'hot wheel tracks'. Comes of being a bachelor with no nieces or nephews and even my god children are now in their late 20's.

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  7. Brian, knowing the meaning of hot wheel tracks is vital cultural knowledge, no matter where you live. Think how your life is enriched by that bit of culture.

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  8. Good news about your granddaughter's arm! Prayers of thanks.

    Brian - I can't believe you didn't know about Hotwheels tracks. We even had those when I was a kid, and I'm old. In the UK they had Matchbox cars, I'm not sure they had tracks back in the "old days", and the steering wheels were on the wrong side.

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  9. Sara, thanks. She's coping well with the full use of only one arm.

    Brian is in Australia. Maybe the Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars didn't make their way down under.

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  10. I am glad to hear that the arm is healing well.

    The day is over now so I am late with well wishes but I do hope it was a fun one.

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  11. Lindy, The day was mostly fun, but we had our moments of what I can only call conflict.

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  12. I'm glad to see it was a mostly fun day.

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  13. We had matchbox cars, although I never had one. I was always into trains. Now need to sell my Marklin trainset which I have not used for over 30 years and thought I would when I retired but that was pre-internet.

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