a cute story

[mrs617]

Before moving to Nevada, we lived in the Palouse. Our address was technically Colfax (no, not CA), but we actually lived out nine miles, two miles from our nearest neighbor. Heh...when we moved here, we had to teach the kids 'town voices'...anyway. There is a lot of clay content in the soil of the Palouse, as my Dad says, when it rains "it's slicker'n snot on a doorknob". You don't want to be caught in a tractor or Cat when it rains. One spring, Fred and Ford were out playing, they would've been 7 and 5 at the time. All of a sudden, we realized that they were both hollering. Actually, since that wasn't unusual, I guess I should say that it was a prolonged chorus. I was sent out to see what was going on. I discovered two little boys in the field just above our house....stuck. Their boots were submerged in mud up to their ankles. They couldn't move. It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I was a very unsympathetic sister, and suggested they could stay there for a while, which of course wasn't taken to very kindly. So I took a plastic sled (I wasn't about to get stuck!), and ended up picking them up out of their boots because I just wasn't strong enough to get them out with the boots. I have pictures in a box somewhere....

That's not the kind of mud I like to walk in barefoot....

I love Firefox. Mama asked me about it after my poll, and the thing I like best about it is the fact that when it can't connect, it doesn't send you to a "cannot find server" kind of page, it just pops up with a little note telling you it can't connect, and you don't lose whatever info you had entered on that page. Yes indeed.

The kids got Charlie and the Chocolate Factory today...I'm looking forward to seeing it again. :)

Comments

[h1s-songb1rd.livejournal.com]

That was a very cute story. :) There's something nice about having you on my friend list that I am struggling as I type this to convey by words. You're familiar with the area I live in, though you don't live here, there's something that binds us. I know we're bound together by Christ and that is special. But this is just an added bonus that God would bless me with a sister that even lived where I live now, once long ago. :) Thanks for sharing your story. You're an awesome sister. *grin*

That's one of the things I love about Firefox, too! And I love that I can just control T and I get a new tab. Firefox rox!

[mrs617.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing that! I know just what you mean. *beams*

Ooooh! I didn't know that! *tries it out* Coooool!!

[singersdd.livejournal.com]

I love that story. I needed the giggle.

The little feller in my icon will be doing exactly the same thing in just a year or 2 (he's 4 now). I hope I'm there when it happens. *sigh*

[mrs617.livejournal.com]

Where else would you be?

[singersdd.livejournal.com]

Well, seeing as how he's my nevvy, I might not be at his house when gets stuck in the mud...

but I'd like to be.

[mrs617.livejournal.com]

ahhh! Gotcha!

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Am I crazy, or have you changed the way you address your mom (at least to us) lately?

[mrs617.livejournal.com]

Maybe to you, interesting. She's always been either Mom or Mama.

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

I could swear you went through a Mum phase, and I never saw you call her Mama until like the last 3 days.

[mrs617.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Well, the Mum thing was because that's how it sounds in my head sometimes, but I quit because I didn't want folks to think I was trying to assume accents I didn't have. ;)

[mrs617.livejournal.com]

I've probably not referred to Dad as Daddy much either, have I?

Maybe I'm just feeling more comfortable with my audience? Now I'm wondering why. :)

[mrs617.livejournal.com]

Um, that 'interesting' meant 'interesting observation' by the way. ;)

[ex-blackswa.livejournal.com]

That is one cool story.

[mrs617.livejournal.com]

*grin* I'm gonna have to find the pictures.