Saturday 13 June 2009 - Perhaps Somebody's Been Listening to Anne of Green Gables Just a Little Too Much...
I was shoveling mud off the cement curbing at the bottom of my flower garden a couple weeks ago when Fuzz skipped over to see what I was doing. For reasons we have never been able to determine, water and dirt collect in this spot, melding into a lovely soft mud, and it is a never-ending battle to keep it clear. Generally I don't bother to try, but with Cheez' open house looming, I was putting forth extra effort in all aspects of yard and garden, and this stretch of curbing was no exception.
"Shoveling all that mud off, huh?" was Fuzz' astute observation.
"Yup," I replied. "Not that it will make a whole lot of difference. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, and this will be full of mud all over again."
My ten-year-old looked at me, at the shovelfuls of muck, at the muddy curb, then shook her head and made her pronouncement.
"A noble but pointless effort," she sighed, and ambled away.
Gotta love a kid who tells it like it is, and in fine literary style to boot.
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