Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Ow!
In Head Start in the summer of '70, we went on several field trips. We went to a turkey farm. We went to a dairy. We went to some other variety of farm. I my own self was raised on a farm, with aforementioned cows, as well as chickens, a vegetable patch, and so on.
After several such field trips, we then took a field trip to a bakery in Fort Smith, Ark.
I was so confused. "Where's the dang field," I thought!
This was about the same time all the Head Start moms had a good belly laugh at my expense when they asked me what I was drawin' at the easel (great word) one day, when it was plainly a big green tree covered with purple spots, and I announced easefully, "a grape tree!" How embarrassing. We even had a fence row of grapes on the farm.
Thus began my love affair with words and their various meanings!
--ER
After several such field trips, we then took a field trip to a bakery in Fort Smith, Ark.
I was so confused. "Where's the dang field," I thought!
This was about the same time all the Head Start moms had a good belly laugh at my expense when they asked me what I was drawin' at the easel (great word) one day, when it was plainly a big green tree covered with purple spots, and I announced easefully, "a grape tree!" How embarrassing. We even had a fence row of grapes on the farm.
Thus began my love affair with words and their various meanings!
--ER
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How -- as in: How do you expect us to stay away from this here blog if you keep a writin' in in rhymes?
We will be waiting anxiously to PLOW through your scribbles as if NOW was our last moment on Earth. I might even get SOUSED and try to come up with something just as creative, but that would make you just GROUSE at my antics. :-)
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We will be waiting anxiously to PLOW through your scribbles as if NOW was our last moment on Earth. I might even get SOUSED and try to come up with something just as creative, but that would make you just GROUSE at my antics. :-)
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