Andrea was always an adventurous little girl. She could find the fun and adventure in every situation. On the other hand, she loved to be feminine and girlish.
Each year for Easter, her mother made her a new dress. When she little her brother, Robert, was just learning to walk and talk. She found such an adventure.
Her mom made her a pretty purple dress. It was full length and had a frilly pinafore in front of it. She loved to twirl and watch the skirts flare out. She loved to primp and admire herself in the mirror. She also loved to romp and play.
The kids were out in the yard playing as we busied ourselves getting ready for church meetings. We heard a faint little knock at the back door. When we opened the door, there was Robert. We couldn't understand what he was saying, but it was clear that he was upset so we followed him out into the yard.
As we came around to the front of the house, there was Andrea hanging from the apple tree by the sashes of her pinafore. She had tied them to the branch of the apple tree and had jumped. The sashes were just long enough that her toes reached the ground, but she couldn't stand on her feet. She couldn't untie the sashes because she couldn't reach them.
We rescued her that day from the branches of the apple tree. We tried to tell her that she should think before she leaped.
8 comments:
That is so funny!!!
I thought it was after church though? Whenever, it was funny!!!
After, before.... I am an old man and can't always remember the details. The story is still true.
IT IS FUNNY! And I was such a DORK! I always love the cold pillow story when we stayed in the Valley at Don and Gloria's! Aunt Gloria opened the freezer and found a cotton pillow shoved inside because her daughters were doing everything in their power to make me comfortable and help me to go to sleep! A cotton pillow just doesn't hold the air like a feather pillow, so it just wouldn't get cold, even when kept in the freezer! :-D
The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other contender. Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k", Which should klear up some konfusion and allow one key less on keyboards.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f", making words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e" is disgrasful.
By the fourth yer, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI COM TRU!
A lot kan be sed for progres, kant it?
Ve kan fro ot years of sensles lerning.
I laughed til I cried.
I can visualize Andrea hanging in the tree tied there.
But uv wot did you kri?
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