The arrival of good weather has led to a good deal of yard work here at Chateau Steelypips. SteelyKid, being a sturdy and active toddler, is quite insistent that she can help with the raking:
Or, possibly, fight off demon armies with her ninja skills. It's a little hard to say. Swinging the rake around does make her happy, though, so Appa and I just try to stay out of her way.
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the Pip officially has strep throat, and thus had to stay home today, but the antibiotics he started yesterday (over his very strenuous objections) have worked wonders, so his energy level was pretty much back to normal.
Leon Wieseltier (you remember preacherly, pompous Leon, right?) is getting
Andy Deans of NCSU rightly rakes ASU over the coals for their Ugly Bugs contest:
Welcome to the 2004 Deltoid awards. Today we are giving out the Golden Rake Award, named in honour of Sideshow Bob and the rakes in the Simpsons Cape Feare episode:
As can be seen in the background, Emmy is as far away from any rake swinging activities as possible, clever dog.
Who knows, she may be on to something. Perhaps kata for rake. Or rake aerobics. Either way it is clearly a shoe in for being the 'next big thing', becoming famous and making buttloads of money.
If that doesn't pan out ... well ... it looks fun and is good exercise.