SPRING BREAK, IT'S AGGRAVATION

Spring Break!

Yes, we're in our 60's and looking forward to Spring Break.  When you're a bus driver's wife, those days are noted on the calendar with magic marker hearts "pretty little red ones all in a row."

We're feeling giddy.  What shall we do?

Well, this first day, we shook our heads in disbelief -- we had 75 degree weather and a gentle breeze!  How lucky could we be!  Outside we went --weeding flower beds, spray painting planters that'd suffered from the winter, planting potted hyacinths into the damp earth, filling the birdbath with fresh water, digging up saplings that sprouted in undesirable places, and replacing the rubber snake back on his rock.

Hey, sunning snakes dispell birds and rabbits.  And even little kindergarteners!

Jayden came, Jayden saw, Jayden recoiled, "I ain't touching no snake."  He was the kindergartener.

After trying some unsuccessful convincing I picked up the snake and rolled it over between my fingers to prove the green skinny critter wasn't real.  It worked. 

When our work was done, we spent the evening in aggravation.

LOL, Aggravation, it's a marble and dice game where players go around the board from base to home and can aggravate their opponents by sending them home to start all over again.  

When John went to get the board he made me chuckle at his pun, "You got your marbles in the kitchen?"  

"My mind is just fine.  I've got my marbles, do you have yours?"  Ha, ha, ha.

Even though I was obviously loosing, he had no sympathy for me when his white marble knocked one of my red marbles back home, "I had to run you down like a dead chicken on the road."

"Ma'am, I'm so sorry 'bout your luck." 

Would you believe John kept winning.  I changed die before each game just to change my luck.  In desparation, because he kept rolling sixes and I kept rolling fours, before the last game I took his dice.   He STILL kept rolling sixes and I kept rolling fours.  Grrrrrrrrrr!

Finally, the agreed upon three games was over.  He still refused to sympathize.

"I won three games in a row, humph."

"I even changed die, humph."

"I even let you go first, humph."

That's okay.  When he left the table a winner, the pretty little red ones were all in a row -- I still had all my marbles!