What Sam says
Overheard in the Wolfe House #276
Peggy (after arriving home in surprise visit in the middle of the day): You’re writing code?
Sam: Yes. (pauses) For Sibelius.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #275
Paige (via FaceTime, from South Korea): So how’s the job search going?
Sam (long explanation and summarizing thusly): And when you have it narrowed down, you pick the one with the best payroll.
The Birthday Girl
Overheard in the Wolfe House #274
Peggy (meeting Sam at the baggage claim, at 1:21 a.m.): You have a new carry-on bag?
Sam: Yes.
Peggy (as she and Sam get in the pick-up, about 15 minutes later): Did someone give you that bag?
Sam: Yes. Aunt Teresa.
Sam (at home, about 45 minutes later): I need to put the bag in the refrigerator.
Peggy: Really? Why?
Sam: It’s full of cookie dough.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #273
Peggy (noting the washer lid is open): Wait. The washer went off-balance?
Sam: I opened it before it started.
Peggy: I didn’t hear that. Did I miss it?
Sam: I can hear it when the motor sound starts refracting.
Peggy (face palm)
Overheard in the Wolfe House #272
Sam (frequent client of a variety of community services, as he opens an envelope): I’m tired of surveys now.
Bonus Overheards: Stuff my Family Says
Sister 2 (reading road sign on the Overseas Highway)
Sister 4: You feel sticky?
Sister 2: No. Fiesta Key.
Sister 3: We get name tags?
Sister 1: No, a hang tag.
Sister 4: My colleague’s wife is a pulmonologist.
Nephew 2: Is that some kind of religion?
Walk, Trot, Canter
We spent last weekend in College Station. Sam rode Trevor in the state Special Olympics, Class A. Here’s the ride. Trevor was really working hard, Sam said, but they didn’t medal.
I’ll post the trail and showmanship videos next.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #271
Peggy (leaving the church): You ok?
Sam: I hate funerals.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #269
Sam (looking over Peggy’s shoulder at the computer screen): So you’re looking up how to do pest control?
Peggy: Yeah, making some with herbs and stuff.
Sam: Like a Venus flytrap?
Overheard in the Wolfe House #268
Sam: Sharon Wilson sent me an invitation to a porch party. I want to go.
Peggy: You bet.
Sam: So what is that about?
Peggy: Some people in Denton are trying to have an election to make Denton frack free.
Sam: If Denton is frack free, I want to move there.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #267
Sam (in a stage whisper): Michael doesn’t have to drive a stick anymore.
Michael’s new-to-him Subaru Outback. (with the old, faithful Saturn in the background)