My second distraction is Tyler. I send him 2-3 page letters every week and those take a bit of my time. When I think of it I will try to start copying some of those stories here.
Here is an excerpt from this last week. My foot is healing from the break and I am wearing shoes now; rocker soles so I don't bend the foot. It feels good in the morning, but by evening it hurts.
Friday evening my foot was hurting, Dad and Melissa
were at the Rockies game, Ryan was out, somewhere, so I had Neal drive me to
finish birthday shopping for Peter. The
car was out of gas, really, really out of gas so of course we’ve got to get
some. While Neal is pumping I see this guy ride up on his bike, he has a head
lamp and a claw. He starts going through
the trash cans looking for cans. He
finds 2 in the first can. He crushes one
then opens the second and drinks it before crushing it. I wonder how many cans it took to buy the
lamp and the fancy claw thing.
From
there we go to Target. Neal is easily
distracted in the toy aisle and of no help picking anything out. Honestly they don’t seem to make as many good
toys as they used to. Either that or we
already own the really good stuff. I head over to the crafts and find a toy
light table. As much as the kids wanted
to play with mine I think it’s a good idea and get it.
Back at
the car I notice that the door to the gas is open. On closer inspection the gas cap is gone.
Yup, Neal had put it on the roof and driven off. I made him go back to the gas station to look
for it. No luck, then I made him go in
and ask. They had one, but it didn’t
fit. Too bad, now Neal had an extra chore to do Saturday. That was a $10
lesson.
