Monday, July 06, 2009
Can You Canoe?
Bee called my mother the other day to let her know that, while out doing obligatory Fourth of July Celebratory Stuff, she... went canoeing.
This won't seem like a big thing to most of you, I imagine, but you have to understand -- Bee has never (never) even volunteered to go canoeing, let along actually had fun. It inevitably ends in disaster.
The last time we managed to coerce her out onto the water, for example, she and I were paddling along inefficiently and with great difficulty, when we noticed that the bottom of the canoe was filled with leeches, forcing us to flail and shriek wildly, meaning that we lost control of the boat and ran aground, unfortunately directly into a giant bush that contained a spider nest the size of a microwave which, when the front of the canoe bumped up against it, burst, sending thousands of tiny baby spiders surging in all directions, including directly on top of Bee, who coincidentally enough suffers from the worst case of arachnophobia I have ever known, and as such became hysterical and threw herself overboard, which was unfortunate because as soon as she hit the water she remembered the leeches....
Anyway, suffice to say canoeing is always a nightmare in our family.
So we should all applaud her courage.
Comments:
I dutifully check your blog on my lunch break, and what is my reward??? Stories of spider nests and leeches, that's what. See if *I* ever check your blog again.
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