Overheard in the Wolfe House #178

Peggy: I hear that lots of girls wanted to dance with you after Special O.
Sam (grinning): Yes. There weren't a lot of leader-follower dances.
Peggy: Oh, you mean things like the Macarena ... and the chicken dance, and YMCA.
Sam: Yes. With leader-follower you can dance with a partner.
Peggy: Like the two-step?
Sam: Two is best for two-step.

Overheard in the Wolfe House #177

Peggy (putting trivet back for a pan of kolaches due to come out of the oven in two minutes): I'm sorry. You need that. It's just that I've been cleaning for 40 years, so I kind of go into auto-pilot.
Sam: Mom, you need to know that once you go into auto-pilot, you can't come back to Earth.

Overheard in the Wolfe House #176

Peggy: How come you're so handsome?
Sam: I don't know. I don't want to look bad.

Mile-marker 700

Ran 5 miles this morning and that took me past 700 miles. That's a nice round number.

I wanted to celebrate the blog sailing past 10,000 visits, too, but that nice, round number was busted by cyber-stalkers and their mega-downloads. Total buzz kill.

Overheard in the Wolfe House #175

Sam: I don't know what grass it is that gives me allergies, but it survived the drought.
Peggy: Yes, it did.
Sam: It just waited for the rain and [claps hands together]. Like a logic bomb.

Overheard in the Wolfe House #174

Peggy: I saw the cat playing with what I thought was a worm this morning, and then it started moving its thousand legs and I realized it was a centipede. Or a millipede.
Sam: Oh, wow.
Peggy: It took about five hits with the fly swatter to kill it.
Sam: Why did you kill it?
(long, long pause)

Talk to yourself and grow your brain

I have overheard my children talking to themselves over the years. This is a habit I don't have. Where I grew up, that was a sign someone had the crazies. But raising Sam taught me not to judge. He got the talk-to-yourself ball rolling for the younger generation around here. I asked Michael once recently, what did he think of all this talking to oneself. He was cool with it.

Apparently, so are the scientists.

RunnerSusan's Awesome Photos, Ken-Burns-ized

After taking gold

Left to right, Bonanza, Sam and me. Photo taken by Susan Harrell Knoll. Sam just took gold in Class A English equitation. The man rides like someone who grew up on the back of a horse. Maybe he can take it down a notch and try out for the regular Olympics now.  

Overheard in the Wolfe House #173

Sam: What about that leftover barbecue shrimp you made?
Peggy: I finished that for lunch today.
Sam: Oh. You need to make some more.
Peggy: I can do that.
Sam: I only had one.