Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Geography Lesson - North Platte River
the north platte river begins in colorado and it flows north into wyoming, through a cute little trout fishing town by the name of saratoga...this town also happens to have a natural hot spring that flows into a sand bottom swimming pool, which sounds like an amazingly cool (no pun intended) experience...
unfortunately, the water was too hot and we ended up at the stream about 50 feet away, where several hot springs mix with the cool water...the mom said that the little boys should wear water shoes, but the mom doesn't know anything about anything and they insisted that they wanted to wear their sandals into the creek...which did not work out well, since the rocks were very slippery...ultimately, the mom went trudging back to the car to get their water shoes...
little boys changing into water shoes,
note the single sandal floating in the water between them...
yep...you guessed it...Little Boy #2 lost his sandal...by the time we noticed, his sandal was long gone, without any trace...after the north platte river leaves wyoming, it joins with the south platte river, meandering across nebraska, where it dumps into the missouri river...eventually the missouri empties into the mississippi...and we all know that the mississippi goes past st. louis on its way to the gulf of mexico...
after that, every time we crossed the north platte river, we waved goodbye to Little Boy #2's shoe...and we teased him mercilessly about how his shoe was going to beat us home...
unfortunately, the water was too hot and we ended up at the stream about 50 feet away, where several hot springs mix with the cool water...the mom said that the little boys should wear water shoes, but the mom doesn't know anything about anything and they insisted that they wanted to wear their sandals into the creek...which did not work out well, since the rocks were very slippery...ultimately, the mom went trudging back to the car to get their water shoes...
little boys changing into water shoes,note the single sandal floating in the water between them...
yep...you guessed it...Little Boy #2 lost his sandal...by the time we noticed, his sandal was long gone, without any trace...after the north platte river leaves wyoming, it joins with the south platte river, meandering across nebraska, where it dumps into the missouri river...eventually the missouri empties into the mississippi...and we all know that the mississippi goes past st. louis on its way to the gulf of mexico...
after that, every time we crossed the north platte river, we waved goodbye to Little Boy #2's shoe...and we teased him mercilessly about how his shoe was going to beat us home...
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Booger Small
There was a little girl
who had a booger small.
She didn't know what to do with it,
so she stuck it on the wall.
One friend joined another
in that gob of greenish goo.
It seemed her only hobby
and every day it grew.
She painted herself a picture
of eyes, ears and nose.
Then she got creative
and gave him nine new toes.
In the morning she would greet him,
with a pucker and a kiss.
His face was nearly two palms wide.
It was very hard to miss.
Then one day he left her
and didn't say goodbye.
Her heart was nearly broke in two,
she couldn't help but cry.
Later she got a postcard,
in time for Sweet Sixteen.
"Love forever, Boogie."
It was signed in tell-tale green.
Copyright 6/8/1994
who had a booger small.
She didn't know what to do with it,
so she stuck it on the wall.
One friend joined another
in that gob of greenish goo.
It seemed her only hobby
and every day it grew.
She painted herself a picture
of eyes, ears and nose.
Then she got creative
and gave him nine new toes.
In the morning she would greet him,
with a pucker and a kiss.
His face was nearly two palms wide.
It was very hard to miss.
Then one day he left her
and didn't say goodbye.
Her heart was nearly broke in two,
she couldn't help but cry.
Later she got a postcard,
in time for Sweet Sixteen.
"Love forever, Boogie."
It was signed in tell-tale green.
Copyright 6/8/1994
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