"The Wizard of Awwws"

It's starting to look as though Kristy and I will survive our overnight stay by our two grand-daughters, Katrina and Kailey, but not without battling extreme fatigue from all the exercise we got, whether we wanted it or not, and if there's anyone out there that has never pulled 2 kid's around in a wagon behind a bicycle for any distance at all, I can assure you that there isn't a gear low enough on a 21 speed bike to take the "work" out of it, and it will be a long time before I do that again. It amazes me to see how the simplest of things can be so entertaining to small children, bringing smiles and hysterical laughter and hugs from them as a reward for doing silly things, such as acting like a bog monster and repeatedly saying such things as "I'm gonna get you"! We had to sit through yet another episode of "Scooby-Doo" last night, which left the girls mesmerized by the intelligence of the whole gang. It was a pretty good show, and I truly believe that the villain would have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddling kids! After this came the breathtaking excitement of "The Wizard of Oz", which of course, is an entirely true story, and most likely filmed right here in Ellis. The girls were totally absorbed in this movie, and thought that the "good" witch, Glinda, was very pretty and helpful. I had very differing opinions on Glinda, as I had seen this show a time or two before. Where the hell was Glinda when Dorothy and the scarecrow were getting the stuffings knocked out of them by the flying monkey-gargoyle creatures, and why didn't she tell Dorothy sooner that, with the ruby slippers, she had the power to go home all along, instead of waiting clear till the end of the movie? What a bitch! I guess that's what's so special about being with young, innocent, non-judge-mental children, as they only see the good in people, at least unless they truly portray wickedness, like the bad witch and the flying monkey's. The girls ate breakfast outside this morning, calling it a breakfast picnic, giving me a few minutes to fritter away on this computer while keeping grandma busy, but I better get back to being grandpa now, even though it's much quieter just watching them from out of the window. They're so cute, dragging the wagon over to my bike and trying to hook the chain............ Crap!