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October 24, 2005

Corn Collector

I had the stomach flu over the weekend and am still feeling a bit "off." Nonetheless, I tried to be productive today, cleaning up messes, getting Halloween gifts ready to ship to my nephews, and so forth.

While wrapping the Halloween gifts, (and also a birthday gift and three Christmas presents; because after all, if you are sending off a large box to Connecticut, why not include the Christmas presents too?) I moved the assortment of Halloween items that I had kept in the middle of the dining room table over to the side of the table to have room for the wrapping production.

Several minutes later, when I went to get the phone, I saw the couch was covered in decorative corn. Splig had apparently grabbed one of the decorations and decided it would be fun to take all the kernels off.

I was on the phone, so I couldn't immediately deal with the situation, so I turned my back on the family room (maybe the mess will go away?) and proceeded with my conversation, while wrapping. After putting away the other decorations and making sure the scissors were out of reach, I returned to the family room.

The couch was clean.

Next to the couch, there was a little basket filled with all the kernels. Splig was eating one kernel, but was carefully placing the others one by one into the basket.

Hallelujah!

Posted by karianna at October 24, 2005 08:54 PM

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