- Time to write “She had dark blonde hair.” – 8 seconds, including visualization.
- Time to write “She had hair the color of burnished bronze.” – 37 minutes, not including time spent cursing.
- Chapter outline: Unexpected meeting. Transfer of deep knowledge. Foretelling of future exploits.
- Chapter draft: “Hey, bro, ‘sup?” “Not much. How’s your mama?” “Fine, man, fine.” “Cool. See you later.”
- Girlie Bear worked her first day of adultish employment today.
- She was doing well to stay awake through dinner.
- She was not amused when I hugged her, told her I was proud of her, and that she only had half a century or so until she could stop.
- Did y’all know that if you tip a push mower on its side so that you can clean the clippings out of the exhaust chute, it will probably destroy the engine by leaking buckets of oil?
- Neither did I, until yesterday.
- My neighbors should be glad to know that my lawn mower has thoroughly fumigated our street through a prodigious application of thick, white smoke.
- In other, totally unrelated news, $BIGBOXHOMEIMPROVEMENTSTORE is having a sale this week.
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Posted by daddybear71 on June 6, 2016
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DaddyBear
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Old NFO
/ June 6, 2016Congrats to Girlie… LOL And I hope you at least put enough oil back in it not to fry the valves… 🙂
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daddybear71
/ June 7, 2016Eventually, yeah. There’s a reason I was glad the hardware store was having a sale.
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Drang
/ June 8, 2016“Did y’all know…?”
Yes. Yes, I did. In my defense, I had been spoiled by an electric mower, which was in the shop.
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