Quotations for the day

Child, pointing to goat: Is she an animal?
Me: Yes. Are you an animal?
Child: No.
Me: Yes you are.
Other child: What kind of animal am I?
Me: A human animal.
Other child: I want to be a rabbit.

For his sake, I hope some sort of reincarnation exists.

Child describing his experience milking a goat (or bottle feeding a kid?) to another child:
We made the goat pee into a bottle.

Sometimes I think the children of greater Cincinnati would be better off if I just stayed in bed.

Thoughts for this weekend

1. When I go out to the garden to take a break from the computer I have been coming back like this:

I got a pocket, got a pocketful of Sungolds...



2. "This is also an excellent time to enlarge your day lily and iris collections. Although this may seem like a minor matter in the middle of harvest, the presence of flowers on your property signals prosperity and often helps to fight depression."
The Almanack Daybook for August 24.
Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for Middle and Late Summer 2012 by W.L. Felker

3. Have chigger bites ever been shown to cause insanity?