Taylor Waylor

Thanks to my new obsession with getting reaquainted with the movie, “Oklahoma,”I have solved a mystery.

I do weird things and call my students names like “pumpkin pie” and “honey lamb.”  Not too long ago, I was trying to figure out where on earth I ever got “honey lamb.”  I totes got “pumpkin pie” from my mother.

Reader.  I got it from “Oklahoma!”

“Oklahoma, every night my honey lamb and I, sit alone and talk and watch a hawk making lazy circles int he sky.”

Mystery solved.  You can all rest easy.

We were able to go camping at the river for the first time this season and it was fun and enjoyable.  They were having jet boat races on the very river that we camp at.

We had many peoples join us and much fun and merriment was to be had.

Here’s Kate and David’s ma.  One of our guests made some delicious pork kabobs and kept handing out more and more meat.  Hence my mother in law holding meat.

I tried to get a video for you, but Auggie totally ruined it.

“What, Ms. Taylor?  I was trying to see if I was as fast as the jet boat!”

Auggie calls me Ms. Taylor and he calls David, Sir David and I do not know why.

Hadley’s boyfriend also came.  His name is Kason.  Kind of like Jason, but with a “K.”

Remember Jason?

Auggie challenged Kason to a wrestling match.

Kason totally won.

There is something you need to know about Kason.  He has an epic last name.  I shan’t share it with you on this here blog.  Wouldn’t be prudent.  But I will tell you all about it.

His last name rhymes with Hadley.  So if they get married she will have a super silly name.

It would be like if David’s last name was “Waylor” and I had to go through life introducing myself as

“Taylor Waylor.”

It amuses me.

My brother and family came and brought with them my precious first grade nephew.

I took Charlie on a walk and he joined me with his adorable little puppy, Frodo.

Apparently Frodo is from “Lord of the Rings” or some other such movie.  Poor Auggie.  He is all about all these kinds of movies and fantasmical worlds and Star Wars and video games and us Maliblahblahs have no idea what he is ever talking about.

We’re always like, “Neat.  Let’s go rope and castrate a calf.”

But precious first grade nephew and Auggie have many similar interests and they had a very in-depth conversation about Zelda, which is some sort of electronic type game, and discussed their mutual love of Legos, and declared themselves best friends.

Auggie:  Dude.  We are like best buds.

Newphew:  I know already!  We decided this on the last day we were here.

(He meant yesterday)

On Friday, I subbed for his class whilst teaching mine in the Zoom world and he had the nerve to miss out on math.  And we were playing “Math Game Show” and everything.

You may ask, “Taylor?  What is Math Game Show?”

Well.  It is a math game that I totally made up.  I basically make everything up while teaching and hope for the best.

ANYWAYS.  Since he missed math, I told his classmates that I would do math with him at camp and give their teacher a picture.

Nephew:  Oh, man!  Are you serious?  Ok.  Give me five problems. Just five.

Nobody seemed impressed with me for hauling this bad boy home:

So, I decided maybe you didn’t fully understand.

Do you see the large truck with the big trailer hauling new-to-David skidsteer?  I expected much more praise and fanfare.  It was really stressful for me.

I even said this sentence to David:  “Do I need to worry about load limits or anything?”

I mean.  COME ON.

Also, this is NOT a Bobcat.  I am learning so much.  Bobcat is a brand name for a skidsteer.

David informed me that this is something called a Wacker Neuson.

Me, being hilarious as ever:  Wack-her?  I hardly KNOW her.

David:  Hilarious, Teller.

Farewell, Honey Lambs!