Counting

I had to laugh this morning. Am I weird? Probably! These citron seeds drying on a piece of waxed paper...

were laying on the bar near where Poppy sits every morning to eat a bowl of Wheaties. Wheaties are the breakfast of champions, you know. Anyhow, noticing him looking at the seeds I said, guess how many seed are in this pile. He said, did you count them? Well yeah! I can't just stand idle and eat lunch so while I ate my biscuit and peanut butter I counted them. Poppy said Mel, don't complain to me again about not having enough time to do everything if you had time to stand and count out two hundred seeds. I said, actually there are four hundred and eighty nine seeds.

Oh golly! "seeds" reminds me again of my very favorite riddle. The riddle that mama and I laughed about for years, years! Here it is again!

If it takes a hen and a half, a day and a half, to lay an egg and a half, how long would it take a grasshopper to kick all the seeds out of a cucumber?

I am a counter. I count my steps to and from the garden and to and from the pond. I count bricks, cinder blocks, hickory nuts, acorns...anything I am picking up. It is especially important to count when going up and down stairs. Is that strange? Guess I will worry now every time I see a white van pulling in the driveway...afraid they are coming to get me and put me away. :)

Poppy putting on his shoes this morning and Eli, big boisterous baby that he, trying to prevent it.

Can you tell Poppy was saying, "Eli, boy, move!  I've got get my shoes on and go to work"!

Okay. My Saturday post. Thank you for visiting. 

Love,
Henny Penny

Leaves

The yard....

Before Thanksgiving, I  got a good start on the yearly leaf raking!  Well that "good start" has long since been covered over again with leaves.  Yesterday was a new start.  If I can rake at least one hour a day,  could the yard be nice for Christmas??  Sounds like a riddle to me.  Maybe the riddle should be, if I rake every day until Christmas, will I be able to walk?  Why is this job so overwhelming this year?  Sometimes I feel like lighting a match and throwing it out the back door!  I'm kidding.  More pictures, in case anyone has forgotten how many leaves need to be raked up...I'm looking for sympathy here...

(I should have been raking instead of taking pictures)

Poppy says he will try to find someone to help me with the leaves, (yeah, I know, I thought the same thing).  It's not like me to ask for help.  But gosh, imagine me, enjoying my coffee, watching the leaves being raked and hauled away!  Maybe when they finish with the leaves, I will ask if they do windows! :)

Speaking of riddles...mama and I were out shopping together several years ago. She was lots of fun to shop with.  Mama loved looking at greeting cards, she loved sending greeting cards.  Uncle Myron's birthday was coming up and she needed a card to send.  Now mind you, mama would get tickled over anything and laugh until she would get whoever she was with tickled.  That's why she carried a tissue wadded up in her hand, to wipe her eyes, from laughing so hard.  So, there was this card with a big grasshopper on the front...the verse inside said, "if it takes a hen and a half, a day and a half, to lay an egg and a half, how long would it take a grasshopper to kick all the seeds out of a cucumber?"  Mama started laughing.  She laughed and laughed and laughed!  People were beginning to look at us.  She had me laughing too.  Mama bought that card and we got out of there. 

This post is not any good for anybody...but it did make me feel better! :)

Do come back!

Love,
Henny Penny