Okay, I am going to tell on myself. The self-respect
preservation side of my mind tells me not to reveal this but my humorous mind
tells me to spill it, it’s just too funny. So here goes.
As many of you know, I was in
Tennessee last September to attend the wedding of Keaton & Teri’s daughter,
Kate. I saw many of my best-loved friends while I was there and made many more
new friends as well. It was a celebration of love every day.
So anyway, after the wedding I
went to the Mulvaney house to hang out with them for a week before I headed
back to the North Pole. The first full day back we did nothing but lie around
and recuperate from the wedding event. After we were sufficiently rested up
Teri and I did some of the usual things we always did together, shopping,
coffee at Java or Starbucks, shopping, mowing grass, visiting friends, Meals on
Wheels, church, shopping…you know, the usual.
One afternoon we were all hanging
out at the house not doing much of anything, Keaton and Alex were watching a
baseball game on the computer, Teri and I were in the living room looking at
magazines and just chatting with each other. I finished my magazine and got up
to see what there was to munch on. After poking around in the kitchen I found
some cookies that looked like Nutter Butter Sandwich Cookies. So a grabbed a
couple and went back to the couch. I bit into one and start to chew on it…it
was hard, kind of like it was stale. I chewed on it a bit more and then looked
at Teri, ‘Are these cookies really stale or are they dog biscuits?’
She looked at me and her eyes got
wide, then she started cracking up. I knew it; they were dog biscuits.
Everyone was laughing, even me, as
I spit out what was in my mouth and tossed the cookies to Wrigley and Hazel.
Alex was laughing so hard I thought he was gonna fall out of his chair. Keaton
was the one who thought to ask me how they tasted. Actually, they weren’t bad,
just very hard. Although I don’t recall them tasting much like peanut butter.
They had wondered if that would
ever happen and were rewarded with a good story to share for years to come.
