Overheard in the Wolfe House #178
Peggy: I hear that lots of girls wanted to dance with you after Special O.
Sam (grinning): Yes. There weren’t a lot of leader-follower dances.
Peggy: Oh, you mean things like the Macarena … and the chicken dance, and YMCA.
Sam: Yes. With leader-follower you can dance with a partner.
Peggy: Like the two-step?
Sam: Two is best for two-step.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #177
Peggy (putting trivet back for a pan of kolaches due to come out of the oven in two minutes): I’m sorry. You need that. It’s just that I’ve been cleaning for 40 years, so I kind of go into auto-pilot.
Sam: Mom, you need to know that once you go into auto-pilot, you can’t come back to Earth.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #176
Peggy: How come you’re so handsome?
Sam: I don’t know. I don’t want to look bad.
Mile-marker 700
Ran 5 miles this morning and that took me past 700 miles. That’s a nice round number.
I wanted to celebrate the blog sailing past 10,000 visits, too, but that nice, round number was busted by cyber-stalkers and their mega-downloads. Total buzz kill.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #175
Sam: I don’t know what grass it is that gives me allergies, but it survived the drought.
Peggy: Yes, it did.
Sam: It just waited for the rain and [claps hands together]. Like a logic bomb.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #174
Peggy: I saw the cat playing with what I thought was a worm this morning, and then it started moving its thousand legs and I realized it was a centipede. Or a millipede.
Sam: Oh, wow.
Peggy: It took about five hits with the fly swatter to kill it.
Sam: Why did you kill it?
(long, long pause)
Talk to yourself and grow your brain
I have overheard my children talking to themselves over the years. This is a habit I don’t have. Where I grew up, that was a sign someone had the crazies. But raising Sam taught me not to judge. He got the talk-to-yourself ball rolling for the younger generation around here. I asked Michael once recently, what did he think of all this talking to oneself. He was cool with it.
Apparently, so are the scientists.
After taking gold
Left to right, Bonanza, Sam and me. Photo taken by Susan Harrell Knoll. Sam just took gold in Class A English equitation. The man rides like someone who grew up on the back of a horse. Maybe he can take it down a notch and try out for the regular Olympics now. Overheard in the Wolfe House #173
Sam: What about that leftover barbecue shrimp you made?
Peggy: I finished that for lunch today.
Sam: Oh. You need to make some more.
Peggy: I can do that.
Sam: I only had one.
Homemade Nutella
2/3 cup hazelnuts
3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
3 T. honey
Toast hazelnuts on a cookie sheet at 400 about 15 minutes. Skins will be very dark. Immediately wrap them in a kitchen towel and rub the skins off. Put the hot hazelnuts in the food processor and process until liquefied (about 5 minutes). Combined the sweet milk, chocolate chips and honey in a bowl and microwave one minute, stir, and return for 30 seconds at a time until the chips are melted. Stir into hazelnut butter and process until very smooth, 3-5 minutes. Pour into glass jar with a tight lid and store in refrigerator.