SCENE: Front yard during the Great
Blizzard of ’16. Hopper is out shoveling the sidewalk between random snow plow
drive-bys. Daughter Patch, age 7, is laying in ten inches of snow making a
snow angel.
HOPPER: Look out! (dumps a shovel load of snow on Patch)
PATCH: (indignant) Dad!
HOPPER: Whatever doesn’t kill you only
makes you stronger.
PATCH: Dad, it’s not making me stronger! It’s
making me colder!
Note: The above incident did, in fact, take place exactly
as described, four hours ago. Patch is resolutely refusing to draw any life
lessons from Nietzsche’s well-worn adage, a well-worn adage I’ve recited to her
many, many times, usually after inadvertently (or advertantly) injuring her in
some small or not-so-small capacity during play.
Some Pics:
Scene from the upstairs bedroom window
The Nietzsche incident took place ten feet to the left of the pic
Patch with the windup ... and the pitch ...
And Little One goes down ! ....
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