Mom, "Boys, I need you to go out and collect leaves of various colors, along with brown and green pine needles, for a collage project I am doing with my class tomorrow for Friday Fun Day."
Boys, in stereo, "Okay Mom!"
Quite a bit later. Zackary, "Mom we couldn't really find any leaves."
Mom, "That's interesting, considering we have an orchard with 24 trees, a pine forest, a nice long driveway lined with a plethora of foliage and don't forget the enormous maple trees. Oh, not to mention the many beechnut trees that make up your fort and their mammoth mother tree by the garden, and the lilac bushes, and the field bordered in cedar trees and various other trees and shrubs, and ..."
Zackary, with a sheepish grin and charming voice, "Okay, well, the truth is we are swinging from trees in our fort with my bull-whip that I made from the jump rope. You know cause I am Indiana Jones. I climb and then get it all set up for Jake and then he climbs up the tree and goes down the rope."
Mom, "Ah, now that I can believe."
The fort in all it's glory, fully equipped with a bathroom. I know you are thinking, cute kids with a bathroom in their fort. It's a real bathroom, with a toilet, that they use. Still cute? Zackary (aka Indiana Jones), "whipped down the goldenrod with my stick machete that really works" to make a bathroom, "it's really private and the old frog habitat is our toilet". The best part (or worst, you make the call) Jacob, "Yeah mom, it works great. We have a system. Whoever fills it up has to empty it." Golly gee wilickers that sounds pretty slick to me! Did I say slick, I meant sick. But hey, they are having a blast. I was relieved (no pun intended, haa haa haa!) to learn that we are only talking about pee, so far anyway ...
Scouting it out
Readying the bull-whip
Come on over Jake
Nope, there are no leaves anywhere around here, not at all.
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