Saturday, October 26, 2024
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Prius adventures
Let us attain the full stature of Christ, so that we may no longer be infants. Let us live the truth in love.
Back in Austin with our new sports-car-like Prius. Miles, Jasper and I took a trip to Bass Pro Shop and Ikea yesterday afternoon. But first it took them awhile to get the back doors open.
“We can’t get in the car, Grandpa!” They wandered around the door a minute until they finally saw the Back-to-the-Future electronic release hidden along the top edge of the back doors. When we got going we played music from the Blues Brothers, including “Rubber Biscuit,” and all of us laughed and laughed. We played it over and over, an auctioneer set to music with a joke or two in the middle.
“What is a WISH sandwich?” Elwood asked. “It’s two pieces of bread, and you WISH you had some meat!” Just the kind of joke Miles remembers and tells again and again.
“The windows go up and down so fast! And they don’t stop in the middle!” I was driving, but I could hear their back seat voices laughing and figuring out all the new stuff, while the car did its sports car thing. More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
Miles and Jasper both had their fun pretending to drive six various sized 4-wheelers at the front of the store, all with big red Christmas bows on the front. Jasper loved the huge helmet and the biggest most expensive machine, and didn’t much want to leave. We sat on the fishing seats on the boats outside, and looked at the biggest reels we’d ever seen inside. All of us wanted some of the pink stuff, fishing poles and hats and flashlights, bargain prices plus donations to cancer research.
The fish tank was full, especially of two sawfish which watched us out of the corners of their eyes. Taxidermied grizzlies and sheep and wolves looked down on us. So peaceful.
Guns and gun safes, amazing camping gear they had never seen, and even a grandma-aged employee who said to me, “What a grandpa day they are having! Wonderful.”
At Ikea we walked around the whole store and then ate Swedish meatballs with lingonberry sauce, peas, mac and cheese. So good. Bought more for Andi, who discovered she loved that Swedish dish decades ago in Chicago.
Andi’s ultrasounds yesterday showed a healthy baby boy, due in early March. He yawned, he showed off several sides of his face. He seems to have a substantial Sandel nose.
Can’t wait to see what will happen next.
Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
 (Ephesians 4, Psalm 122, Ezekiel 33, Luke 13)
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