Fun on the Ice

For me the big ice puddle in the back yard is a hazard. Fortunately, there's no need to go back that way on a deep-freeze day in January. Lilly and Ann feel differently about it.

This was at about noon. It was a half day at school. "What do the teachers do the rest of the day?" Lilly asked me.

"Get together and tell stories about their students," I answered. "While drinking coffee. It used to be coffee and cigarettes, but now just coffee."

She knows better than to take me seriously all of the time.