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In a message dated 9/23/2003 3:59:58 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

> Should have seen that 10yo girl of ours chopping firewood, oak no less,
> with an axe. She has broad shoulders like her Daddy's sisters, and is strong as
> a little bull from climbing trees. Each morning she styled her hair and
> freshened her make up. She opted against bringing her black "go-go boots" with
> no input from us.
>
> Actually we camped in the Manistee National Forest. It's wilderness
> camping, no water, elec or even outhouses. Who wants a nasty outhouse anyway? Best
> of all NO ONE was there and it's free. It was so deserted we could have
> walked around nude, hubby said he'd be interested in that! You don't say!!
>
> Husband has been suffering with jock itch. As we lounged in the dunes
> watching spectacular Lake Mich, 10 yo dug sand for all her worth and I kept a
> lookout so he could sun his "gents," (I think she abbreviated "genitals' - quite
> appropo) as daughter calls them. I think it helped. I told him he looked
> like a pervert. We tried to come up with a code word as warning for an
> approaching person. "Land ho!" was first, then, "Walking the dog" and then I told
> him if someone approached I was going to yell, "Cover up your penis!"
>
> Sunday when we woke up we heard a couple of rifle shots far away and were a
> little dismayed. I thought it would be awful to be shot with your pants down
> squatting in the woods. (As if it wouldn't be awful any other time!)
> Headlines started emerging from our combined sleeping bags, "Rochester woman shot
> while shitting down" this from hubby: "Rochester woman loses left cheek"
> and my final: "Cheeky Rochester woman loses it."
>
>
> "Mr. Cool" has been teaching himself web page design. I remember him
> sitting through math classes (gr 5-8 the same old shit for four years) pulling his
> hair, he was so frustrated. (He decided to start homescool for "gr 9".) He
> got a gig with a company in town and he's doing an amazing job. They've
> told him they'll pay him $75 for it, which is cheap by any standard, but good
> bucks when you're 15 and you enjoy the work. It could be a fabulous referral.
>
> 10yo decided she's like to be in "6th grade" this year. All that carefully
> constructed bullshit the system promotes! I'm so glad she can see that the
> emporer is naked....
>
> Fondly,
>
> Retta
>
>

Well, the emperor, and apparently, your husband too LOL

I want VERY much to hang out with your family. This cracked me up. You sound
like very cool people.

Kathryn


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