Dog and Cat

This morning was a "do over" morning.  A do-over the cleaning , the mopping, the laundry again morning after the visit by my boys. I don't know why I bother. It wasn't really that dirty. I just cleaned all last Thursday, but I will do it over and over again and again 'til I die with a rag and Clorox spray cleaner in my cold, gnarled hand.

The pictures are of the boys' adventures this weekend. It was rather brisk fishing on Lake Pleasant and there were horrible amounts of debris washed down from somewhere: whole cactus, logs, propane tanks--awful obstacles that I was afraid would sink our small vessel.

Sorry that you see Rooster's cheese sandwich in his mouth in the picture. I am not a very proficient photographer. I take 'em about two seconds too late every time. There is a cute picture. Wait for it, wait for it. Shoot! Too late. That's how I got the mouth-full-of-food shot.

While the boys were here, we read lots of books. ( In the picture we are looking lovely in our jammies.) One book was a first reader book and the title was Dog and Cat. The idea is that kids will recognize short, sight words from the story.

 So the book reads, "The dog was old..." (turn  page) "The cat was fat..."  It proceeds that the old dog couldn't catch the fat cat because he was too old. The fat cat could run faster even though he was fat. Of course, he destroyed the house while escaping the dog. None of the words in the story were much over three letters. The last two pages go back to , "The dog was old..." "The cat was fat..."

I know it doesn't sound Pulitzer worthy, but Rooster and I laughed and laughed. We read it again and again.  We laughed and laughed. He said, "We like this book don't we, Grandma?"

"Yes, Rooster, we do!"

Some of the liking  had to do with the fact that we read it together. Some of the liking on Grandma's part was because Grandma Jo is both old and fat. And some of the reason we liked it was because at age 4 Rooster is able to recognize the words dog and cat. That is so cool!