1917 · Paul Marble Wood
I worked over at Mrs
Tompsons in the morning
putting a new Casting
on the top of the stove and
putting a piece of pipe
in the chimeny in the
afternoon I and papa
fixed the roof of the wagon
shed and looked at other roof
It snowed off and on all day
2001 · Lisa Barnes King

Tucker turned 7 today. And such a happy guy. The birthday- balloon-fairy came through. He'd been worried she wouldn't. The tooth-fairy's been so unreliable.  He creaked up to my bedside about 7 and whispered, "She came mama. And she got the number exactly. Seven balloons. All around my head." Jake and Tucker had no school for teacher meetings, Gus was home sick and Watt and I took the day off. We ate sandwiches in bed watching Scooby-Doo on tv and Tucker declared it the best birthday ever.