When I picked up Cameron at MDO on Thursday, I pilfered through the drawers in the kitchen at church. I couldn't find the ladles. I know they are there, but I didn't want to hang in the kitchen too long looking suspicious. They don't want me taking Cameron home with me unless I show three forms of ID and fingerprints as it is.
After Cameron came home, he wanted his mommy to nurse his earache. Do all nearly three year-olds have moments when it looks like in all probability the family has just spawned another sociopath? Anyway, he screamed a solid hour at my house, and finally agreed to take medicine. That's a half aspirin dissolved in a teaspoon of water, with ample warning that it tastes disgusting. He finally stopped crying long enough to tell me that was nasty! Then he asked for a band aid. So I got a band aid for his ear, tricky to apply... but the kid wants a band aid, I'll waste one. That was the end of the tears. Why didn't I look in the kid manual and discover that a band aid was the cure for any and all physical distress. I'm told by his aunt Mimi that he was showing off the band aid that evening, but didn't complain about his ear ache.
Tania, aka Bridezilly, had her gown on for the final fitting today. She also is in negotiations for a one year job producing thirteen pieces of a series for Discovery Health. She allows as how the pay for producers instead of co-producers is up in a range that makes her rather happy. So maybe she'll be able to pay off all the cost overruns on the wedding?
Proverbs 5:20 - 23
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?
Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
For a man's ways are in full view of the LORD,
and he examines all his paths.
The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him;
the cords of his sin hold him fast.
He will die for lack of discipline,
led astray by his own great folly.
And that's the end of Proverbs 5, and injunction against adultery. Since the Hebrew scriptures were studied mostly by men they're written in a man's language. But all of us have the chance to reach out and take something that attracts us, and tangle ourselves in cords of sin, the fruit of undiscipline and folly.
As for me, I'll go play bridge, always an activity with a bit more opportunity cost than I really want to pay, but always something interesting in there. I lose all day tomorrow to working the polls. But I'll have the $$ I needed for the wedding. It's all good.
I remember reading that mushrooms "spring up" from a circular formation in the ground. Is that the explanation for this?
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Glass punch ladle--very classy but somewhat risky as you mention. Would she consider a clear plastic/acrylic ladle as a safer option? Check out a restaurant supply place for ladles if you can't find one to beg or borrow. So when is the wedding date?
Aha! A Fairy Ring! Lots of fokelore about those. And, yes, it seems that some species of mushrooms/toadstools do form rings. Apparently the underground fungus spreads outward from a central location in search of nourishment.
I'm thinking even a lovely silver plate ladle would be nice and probably easier to find than glass. Also safer. Of course we are old and look at the safety of things, where the younger ones only see the beauty and what they want. sigh
And what Deb said about Fairy Rings.
Now I could be wrong about the Fairie Ring, but I think the spores blow out from underneath the original mushroom. If there is no wind to disrupt the "spray", each subsequent new generation of mushroom would then be that much far away and in each cardinal direction from the "mother" it blew away from.
Now that's science ... I'd rather think that fairies had something to do with it. I like fantasy.
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