April's Fools

Third attempt at french braiding for Meri.  Looking good chick!

 

She and a friend splatter painted some clothes on purpose Monday after school.  I wouldn't let them splatter paint in the house or while the shirts hung on the wood fence.  I'm pretty mean, huh?  They didn't want to lay the shirts on the grass because yucko!  They'd get dirty!!  You know what?  I know how to wash clothes!!!  

Just so you know they're not crazy, I will tell you that there is a Glow-in-the-dark dance on Friday night at their school.  So this neon paint is glow in the dark variety.  

Oh!  I get to work in the school kitchen during the dance!!  So I'll keep an eye on my little girl...  And then on clean up duty.  Meri and same friend have promised to help out.

Meri painted up an old pair of jeans too.  

While they were painting, the wind suddenly picked up something fierce and the rain started.  They moved to the deck under the overhang and ended up just using paint brush strokes rather than splattering.  There was no mess!  The rain lasted all of 3 minutes but was extremely powerful.  Whew!  

 How did your April Fools Day go?  No one really punk'ed me at all.  GOOD!  At least I don't think so.  I need to ask Maddy again today whether she did or did NOT actually get into College choir...  There are 4 different choirs at her college.  The red robes, which she's in this year and is an all female choir.  The blue robes, all men's choir.  The green robes, which is a LOT of students that didn't want to be in any of the other choirs.  And then the black robes, which are the best of the best.  

This year, the black robes got to go to Florida and have concerts at many and various schools and churches AND sit on a beach.  This group gets to travel...  a lot...  I didn't even know she was going to try out for it!  

So if this is true, then she needs to work harder on her smug attitude, even though she SAID she's "got it down", in her words.

And while I was downloading some photos from my cell phone, I found a picture from Nebraska from the visit to my folks!  Leon playing, King of the tree stump!  

 

 

We're supposed to get some rain this afternoon, but that won't stop Meri from riding her moped to and from school today.  

I didn't tell you that yet, did I?!  Just after spring break when Meri got her moped permit to drive, she was bound and determined to ride it to school that Monday.  But we wouldn't let her because we had a blizzard.  I didn't want her to get within a block of the house in an unplowed street and land flat on her back on pavement...  We let her on Tuesday because there was just a dusting of snow.  She wasn't happy that I insisted on following her over...  But she got to drive it home by herself.  And that was cool...  literally.

So if the weather isn't too yucky, she's "little miss Independent"!  Yesterday she drove it on a county highway to get to piano lessons!  6 miles!!  No amount of rain will stop her now!!!

Unless it's a torrential down pour like it was on Monday.  YEOWZA...