I meant to write on Saturday to wish you all a sensational International Sword Swallowers Awareness Day but Reid and Ken and I got so busy doing nothing that I forgot. I certainly didn’t want to miss the opportunity to say, “Happy Square Root Day.” It’s a rare occasion, definitely the sort that you want to share with your family and friends. If you’re wondering, it’s square root day because the month’s number and the date are the square of the year. We won’t have another one until April 4, 2016. Following the Square Root Day recommendations in Wikipedia , we’ll be having root vegetables with our supper. Ken is excited about this completely non-commercial holiday. I think he is sad that I didn’t tell him early enough that he could have baked a cake – square of course. (Okay, that may be overstating things. His “excitement” may have been exasperation at my ability to find such special days.)
Archive for March, 2009
Happy Square Root Day!
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009If my name were “Bookmark”
Sunday, March 1st, 2009Reid and I watched cartoons yesterday morning. Ever since we put the television in the basement watching tv has been a rare event. One of the shows that we watched was Super Why. For those of you who didn’t know who Daniel Cook was, I’ll explain that the show involves four little kids who each have super powers, like spelling, sounding out and reading. It’s the little guy, the star of the show, who stands on letters that spell “READ”. This guy, for obvious reasons, is Reid’s favourite. Not surprisingly, since Reid doesn’t read, she is not troubled by the incorrect spelling of her name.
At one point, when the characters were encouraging the kids to associate sounds with a letter. I joined in saying the sound and was reprimanded promptly. “If your name was ‘Bookmark’, you could do this show but your name is Barbara. My name is “Read’.” Put in my place, I stayed quiet since my name definitely isn’t “Bookmark”.(I’ll have to speak with her about the use of “was” versus “were” in the conditional tense.)