November 3, 2012
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Fiddlin'
I have this thing about collecting instruments that catch my fancy. We have several guitars, a dobro, a fiddle, a trombone, a marimba, a mandolin, an accordion, several guitars, and probably some I've forgotten about. I've always thought it would be cool to learn to play the fiddle, so I bought one several years ago and one daughter took lessons, and I tried a few times, then forgot about it. This year, the 9 year old, Rebekah began taking lessons, and her teacher affixed temporary position marks to the neck. I just picked it up and for the first time produced something that sounded like music. This is pretty cool! Maybe one day, I'll be able to be an obscure fiddler to go along with my mediocre ability to play about fifteen other instruments.
In other news, the kids got a kick out of my search for words when the cheater bar I was using to help break loose the lug nuts on the Suburban came off the lug wrench and inflicted quite a blunt force to my thumb. All I could do was dance around in pain and say....nothing.
Amazing how your vocabulary is reduced when you experience sudden pain. I searched all six available words in my brain and none of them were fit for use, so I just danced around and said nothing. The kids very seldom see me angry or not in control of my emotions, so initially they stood in quiet respect of their father's pain, until Gracie piped up, "Daddy's doing the pee pee dance! What's wrong Daddy, you gotta go? Haha! Daddy why would you dance around like that when the bathroom's right inside the house?" My kids think they're comedians.
Gracie, taking advantage of the fact that her Daddy was busy changing the tire stuck a hat on my head and snapped off a quick shot.
Haha! comedians....but it's funny that the same person is the butt of all the jokes. Guess that's why Daddys have broad shoulders.
Comments (6)
crudapples man. crudapples. it's the go to for any father.
You get to express the...displeasure you're experiencing, and they just think it's an old fogey word, and laugh. Win/win
Chidren are without mercy sometimes , they did not experienced what is an intense pain . To forgive !
It remains they do not fail the photos . Very good but I confess I would not want to be at your place . What a dance !
In friendship
Michel
I'm glad the thumb feels enough better that you can now laugh with the kids!
You could be a one man band ,like the Dick Van Dyke on Mary Poppins!
Kids are comedians, and quite hilarious, and they can get away with it because they are little and "Aww, so cute!" but when I try to joke (I am 15) it's "Go to room .Don't be rude. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr *yell* *shout** le sigh*
It pays to have a good cheater bar (a length of 1" pipe) but it is too late to moan about it now isn't it? A good craftsman knows that poor tools are dangerous. I sometimes use my leg to leverage down a lug nut. Some folks will tell the repair shops to hand torque the nuts tight. Air gun tight lug nuts are sometimes impossible to remove by ordinary means.
It was nice of you to not say the 'bad' words for the sake of the children. I am sure you do not like using those words anyway.
Cute photos of you. I like your sense of humor.
frank