"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Riding in the car with my sister and her 8 year old grandson a couple days ago there were a number of turkeys walking along the side of the road. Cooper pipes up with his vast knowledge from nature shows concerning the turkey's inability to fly. Sister and I both instantly quoted that in unison, then laughed at the impossibility of the kid to ever understand why.

We moved him into college on Saturday.

Best wishes for a wonderful college experience. I shake my head in disbelief while understanding that mine are full grown men now. How does that happen so quickly?

Zen, I never know what to say about your Viking war wound. I've been making all the empathy and sympathy faces at the screen, but I don't know how to type them at you. I hope the painkillers give you relief and that the surgeon can fix you good, fast, and right.

Skipped and skimmed but wanted to point and nod at this.

Thanks for sharing that sweet story about Burt Reynolds. I admire those people skills.

I'm old enough to remember when he posed for a beefcake centerfold with his hairy pelt and big delighted grin.

There was a big poster of that picture in my first post-college house, and we used it in the winter to block the fireplace.

TCG is taking ltc into school today and I have successfully resisted the urge to send her in with a note that says, "daddy got me dressed today".

Thanks for sharing that sweet story about Burt Reynolds. I admire those people skills.

I heard so many times how sweet, sensitive, and kind he was. Locally people all out despised Loni Anderson for the harm she did to him. Somehow I have never seen the Smokey movies! So not my thing.

"daddy got me dressed today"

Hahaha, trust me, they have seen worse. Is she liking her school?

There is a youngster across the street from me in Otter Lake and I am amused when he whoops and hollers when the school bus appears over the hill about 6:45 in the morning. His little sister has down syndrome and she has school year round and I think he was jealous that she got picked up by the bus all summer. He certainly is enthusiastic every morning so far when he sees the bus. My first morning smile every day this week.

She loves her new classroom and is doing really well staying through lunch. She is taking cooking and swim after school. Cooking she loved, swim she was a bit terrified of, but I'm hoping she'll adjust. I'm not used to seeing my fearless girl scared. It made me tear up a bit.

Oh dear, I hope seeing other kids enjoy swimming will encourage her.

I wonder if the stage manager I knew at the Burt Reynolds theatre is still there.

I wonder if the stage manager I knew at the Burt Reynolds theatre is still there.

I think he turned it over to the community college around 1990, and then was taken over by Maltz maybe around 2000. We saw several shows there last year. It was much smaller and more intimate in the 80s, but not very profitable. It still has been very focused on education from his time to present.