Neatnik's class has been studying communities and human features in social studies class this term. Yesterday, Neatnik used sidewalk chalk to draw a somewhat elaborate village on our driveway. She had lots of houses and all kinds of shops. The shops weren't simply generic businesses, either, each one had a name and a purpose: car dealership, horse breeder, grocery store, and clothing boutique were all represented.
Neatnik specified that the villagers were allowed to drive cars on Main Street and also allowed to ride horses on it. Cars had to obey the speed limit; the horses did not.
Number Guy waited with Neatnik for the school bus to arrive this morning. He sent me a text message from the driveway:
"Sadly, it appears the good town of Roxaboxen has suffered a grave cataclysm and has been completely eradicated by the great deluge of 2011..."I note the following (a) it rained pretty hard last night; and (b) if he ever gets tired of engineering, he's got career possibilities as a reporter.
Film at eleven!
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Alas, brave village!
Everyone should have a fallback career option. Good going, NG!
Of course. How would you know how fast your horse was going? So logical.
Too bad it got wiped out. It sounded like a very logical place to live. Who thought up the name?
That is one of my favorite stories.
I heard about your storm of storms... it would have driven away all the little stones as well!
It must have been a tidal wave that washed away the intrepid villagers but they will be back to rise again and rebuild their village!
LOL
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