June 16, 2010
Tootsie and I attended library story time at the Delta Library today! We were very impressed. The kids gathered around as Ms. Nancy read a book about Dinosaurs (we had already read…I’m always proud when we’ve already read the one that is being covered). Then, they decorated flower pots, went outside to fill them with dirt, and added an aloe plant, colored sand, and a toy dinosaur. When the pots were filled, we headed back inside for vanilla wafers and cherries (cherries are popular here). Tootsie was reluctant to leave since she made a new friend. I made one too.
Tootsie and I have been going to story time in Alabama since she was about a year old. Leaving our friends there (at both the Gadsden and Rainbow City branches) was hard. I brought our camera on our last day at the Gadsden Library.
After leaving the Delta Library and eating lunch at home, I loaded Tootsie up in our borrowed jogging stroller and strolled/ fast walked/jogged the short distance to the park. This was our first time there and again, I was really impressed. The equipment is new and the kids are sweet. Tootsie made some more friends but before the our day at the playground was over, she got her little feelings hurt because she tried to do something that she was too little to do and ended up getting a little bit hurt. She was hanging out with the big girls at the time and after I forced her to come to me to cry instead of the lonely rock she was heading for, she told me in deep sobs that she just wasn’t “fit” to play with the big girls. Poor baby. After I figured out what was wrong, I let her sit for a while on the lonely rock with My Friend at her feet. In a few minutes she was over it and ready to wander into the woods with her friends.
My Friend came with us to the park and since there was a “No Dogs Allowed” sign posted I tied him up to the fence. But after he chewed his leash dang near in two, I brought him in. I was sure to check with the mothers there and everyone was fine with him. He stayed in my lap most of the time anyway. He thinks he is a lap dog.
The "outhouse" at the park. It was very nice actually. It was MUCH nicer and MUCH than most every park restroom I have seen in the past. The hole is deep too. A deep hole is nice. The eternal stench of no plumbing? Not so nice.
3 Comments
Well, what you want in an outhouse is at the very least a deep hole. I've seen my share of toilet holes mostly overseas where they don't seem to mind sending their poop down into a bottomless troll cavern, and I tell ya, it would have been much harder to do without foot grips (yeah, they have em) and the seemingly "bottomless" part. Is anyone hungry? I'm famished.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Suzy Q is very very very cute in that pic with My Friend, and you and Chuck-A-Dee are very very very cute in that pic in front of the table, too. Miss ya'll lots and lots.
Foot gripes eh? Bottomless troll cavern eh? Sounds like heaven to me.
ReplyDeleteMiss you too sister.
I'm so proud of your cooking efforts! You are putting us freezer cooking mommas to shame! :-)
ReplyDeleteWe had our last MC board meeting last night - made me miss you! :-)