A few years ago our neighborhood association came up with an idea that we would have arches, made of pvc pipes and wrapped with red tape to make them look like candy canes, put up at each end of every street in the subdivision. The arches are also wrapped in lights, and they so make quite a display during the holiday season. The traffic on our otherwise quiet streets really increases near Christmas.
Last week the arches were dismantled by the volunteers in the association and left in the yards of the homes in which they would be stored for the next 11 months. Our house is one of the chosen for the arch that graces our lot. So the grandboys and I were out in the yard gathering the pieces of pipe and moving them to the garage. But we got distracted.
Our oak tree produced 40 tons of little acorns this season and they are all over the ground now. While down rolling up the strings of lights, I picked up an acorn and chunked it at the 7 year old, hitting him on his noggin. And the war was on!
For the next 10 or 15 minutes it was all out acorn slingin’ and duckin’. The 6 year old is not a good pitcher yet, so he would gather up a handful and come in for a kind of Kamikaze attack! The 7 year old was whooping like an Indian firing away. I was able to hold my own, and we had a ball.
We eventually got our chore done, the boys had a story to tell their cousins and I had something to blog about!
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