Cucumbers, get your cucumbers!!!

If you are lucky enough to live on Fawn Ct./Whitetail Circle, these little entrepreneurs might have made a visit to your house. Last year Parker and Nash sold cucumbers door-to-door and they have been waiting all summer for the cucumbers to be ready to sell again. This year, they expanded their inventory to include green beans and pumpkin blossoms. My dad took them around the block and they made a total of $21.00. Pretty good, if you ask me! They split it 3 ways. Nash plans on buying a beach house, Jack wants a new Little People boat (he has a little tugboat, he wants a yacht) and Parker is undecided but leaning towards Legos (he has his eye on a set that is $120.00) Clearly, they need to sell a whole lot more cucumbers! The tomatoes are almost ready and they think those will be big sellers.


This is the kind of thing that happens around here all the time that just keeps me cracking up. Jack is a hoot lately. He puts the rubber gloves on and says he's a monkey. So true, so true. And yes, he is wearing a pull-up (actually it's a Dollar General nighttime pull-up which looks very much like an adult diaper) because I cannot keep him dry overnight. Even when I don't let him have a drink after 7:00. Even when I make him go potty right before he goes to bed. I just end up washing sheets, comforters and pillows. Sooooo, a pull-up is just plain logical. Speaking of Jack, he has just been so good lately. This is a very good thing because Parker has been pretty bad. I think he's bored which is manifesting itself in ridiculous, horrible behavior and a very sassy mouth.

Yesterday we took a little trip to Springfield to visit the party store for Parker's birthday party. They have a great costume section and I wanted to get him an Indiana Jones hat. Unfortunately, I couldn't look at the costume section because both Parker and Jack got completely freaked out at the scary masks. I don't get it. It's broad daylight and I'm right there with them. Parker had such a tight grip on my arm that it actually hurt. This brought back memories of a trip to the Ozarks that we made when I was about 10 and we went to Meramac Caverns. It is this big cave where they do tours. Tracy and I both HATED it and cried and clung to our parents during the whole tour. I remember my parents talking about how hard we were squeezing their hand/arm. In our defense, that was a cave which might as well be the gateway to hell as far as I'm concerned and Parker and Jack were in a well-lit mini-mall store. Very different. Anyway, we also went to a brand-spanking new Walmart. (This was not the plan, but we needed to go to Walmart and it might as well be a new fancy one, right?) It is so pretty from the outside. They even have these 2 large sets of columns standing in a slight curve with quotes from Abraham Lincoln. Both of which are favorites of mine, "Most people are about as happy as they want to be." And, "I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." When we were walking in, I overheard this woman telling her husband, "It doesn't matter what they do, all Walmarts are still the same." At the time, I thought she was being really catty. I mean, it's Walmart after all, what exactly were you expecting? Well, when we left, I think I knew exactly what she meant. They must have had 40 lanes, and only 3 of them were open and 2 of those were self-service (which is a whole other blog entry). It doesn't matter how lovely your store is from the outside or even the inside if you have to wait 20 minutes to pay for your purchases. I hate that.

On a happy note, it was weigh in Wednesday and I lost another 1.6 which brings me to a total of 31.6 lbs. 10 more to go to my goal. Well, as I've said before my goal is negotiable. At least 5 more to go though. Whoo-hoo!!