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She blinded him with whiteness - 2008-07-25
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8:55 a.m. - 2008-02-21
Mick used to be a Kirk guy, but after last night he's become a major Picard fan. (see previous entry) *snerk* The one thing I hadn't gotten around to during all my cleaning was the kitchen floor. Remedied that yesterday. Two washings- the first got up all the glop and crud, but it took the second go-round to get it clean enough to wax. Okay, I didn't wax the floor, I spread Future on it. (You can buy floor wax at Amazon! Who knew?) I like Future. It's super shiny. I'm all about the shiny. When I was a kid I used to spend hours using Twinkle copper polish on my mother's Revere pots. Not because she made me either, I just liked making the copper bottoms gleam. I'm still loony like that. Something inordinately satisfying about making dull tarnished things all shiny again. Wood too. When we refinished the Hobbit House's floors I used marine varnish on them so they're all glossy and slick. Dangerous in sock feet, but what's the risk of a broken neck compared to the loveliness of the afternoon sun on glowing varnished maple? There was a dead deer at the foot of the driveway this morning. I didn't know it was there until I opened the front door to get Wolf out to the bus. I warned him about the deer before he got outside. In typical Wolf fashion he said, "Oh poor little thing!" then after seeing the deer for himself he added, "Hey, now we can eat it!" That's my boy, takes after his mom, a practical romantic. I explained to him we didn't know how long the deer had been dead, you have to cut animals up very quickly after they die or the meat is spoiled, but yeah, otherwise we would have eaten the deer. Waste not, want not. This ties in with recent discussions about food ethics. It bothered my boy that we kill things to eat them. I explained we all make choices. Some people feel it's wrong to kill animals to eat them and that was fine. Other people, like us, do eat dead things, but we don't kill just for the fun of it. For us the best we could do was to use as much of the animal as possible. So not only do we eat the meat, a cow's skin becomes leather, and its bones are ground up for fertilizer. He got that. We also talked about how food is important and not just humans kill to eat, so do lots of other animals. He got that too. Funnily enough the thing that really settled it for Wolf was cannibalism. I kid you not. As mall Santas prove the existence of the real Santa, and if he were inclined that way churches would prove there is a God, the idea that WE are meat and can be killed and eaten kind of brought it full circle for my son. A chicken is meat and so is a boy. And both can be served with stroganoff sauce. That's fair. Damn I love the way Wolf's mind works. Don't you? Hope y'all saw the eclipse last night, it was gorgeous! ~LA
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