Funny Things my Husband Says

Yes, it's another edition of "Funny Things my Husband Says"!

He's the gardener 'round these parts.  Me?  I just tend to kill plants.  I don't mean to...it just happens.  Anyway, he planted just one tomato plant this year and surrounded it with some sort of lovely flowers.  Well, that tomato plant went and grew HUGE!  It towered up, up, up over its wire cage and even grew through the netting Dave placed over it to help keep the varmints away.

And there it stands, looking all proud and fabulous, until the wind picks up.  When we get strong gusts that huge tomato plant decides it's a great time for a nap and it lays right down.

So...Dave's solution?

"I need to make a proper propper for that plant!"

Yup, he's awesome!

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The First Time I got Busted by the Cops

For some reason, lately every time I see the color green, this old memory comes flooding back.


I must've been nine or ten.  It was a perfect summer day, with perfect weather, in perfect Palo Alto, California, in my grandparents' perfect neighborhood.  I was riding my beyond amazing green banana seat bike with tall handlebars.  Proudly printed on the frame were the words "Dill Pickle," and the playing card I had clipped near my spokes was making the most satisfying purr.  My brother was seated behind me.  No helmets.  No worries.  Wind in our hair.  Bliss!

And then a police officer pulled up beside us and demanded that we stop immediately.  Which we most certainly did.


Police Officer:  "Only one passenger per seat."


I looked at my banana seat that clearly provided ample room for my bottom, my brother's bottom, and at least one more friend's bottom, and looked back at the cop.

I think it was at that moment that I realized that not all laws made make sense...or at least the bad ones shouldn't apply to me.

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