Favorite snacks and treats
Nutella (because I was denied it as a child) Doritos (same as above) Fresh hand-picked strawberries, raspberries and blueberries as they come into season and we go fruit picking
Times you’ve had an audience
Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Annie get Your Gun Pirates of Penzance Mikado – playing Nanki Poo in high school musical SMCS concerts Yearly piano recitals as a child
Half pint grows up
As a kid, I had a crush on little Laura Ingalls from the television series Little House on the Prairie. I know, not exactly the poster model most guys were into. But I liked her gap-toothed smile, freckles, red hair and impishness. So when I heard they’d turned the book …
- Those Darned Squirrels
Old Man Fookwire is a grump who only likes to paint pictures of birds that visit his backyard. The problem is, they fly south every winter, leaving him sad and lonely. So he decides to get them to stay by putting up beautiful birdfeeders filled with seeds and berries. Unfortunately, the squirrels like the treats, too, and make a daring raid on the feeders. The conflict escalates-until the birds depart (as usual), and the squirrels come up with a plan that charms the old grump.My take: How can you not like a book where you get to say Googlie Mooglie, raise your fist and yell “Those darned squirrels”?
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