Off my trolley

This year I wanted to put a net over the fish pond to keep the leaves out. I took today off and decided that it would be a good day to build a wooden frame and stretch some netting over it. Problem was I didn’t have any wood and Dena had the big car so I didn’t have any ready way of transporting getting any. I thought for a bit, and concluded that the hardware store at ½ mile away really wasn’t that far. Alexander and I made it there in record time and loaded our shopping trolley with half a dozen, somewhat cumbersome 8 foot long planks and made our way to the checkout. “Do you want a hand out with that?” the lady asked as she rang us up. I thought hard, and decided that “Yes, please” was definitely not going to get me where I wanted to be 15 minutes from now, and so opted for a jolly “No thanks. Have a grrrreat Thanksgiving!” Sure enough 15 minutes later we had wheeled the wood almost to the house. I must admit one does get a few odd looks when you wheel a shopping trolley full of wood through your neighborhood with your 5 year old son. But it’s not anything like the looks when you walk back through your neighborhood alone with any empty shopping trolley!