Family

This year’s flu, in spite of the preventative shots, has completed its round through our family.

Hockey is frigid, football is cold, soccer is warm and baseball is hot, right?

… and should be.

He: No, dear. [pause] Does it bother you that I pick up sluts on business trips?

My great-grandfather Skinner, like his Skinner ancestors, was rather short. Indeed, when we went to visit our Skinner roots near Barnstaple in England, my wife had to put Post-It notes saying “Duck!” on all the door frames because I was too tall and kept bumping my forehead.

It is a tradition that wives and then children take on the father’s surname. While we could debate why this is, the fact remains it is now and has been for most of recorded history, a common practice.

By the time summer is over, I’m expecting this to grow by 50%.

Plan:

• Card,
• Present,
• “I love you”,
• Six guns and ammo,
• Concealed carry,
• Starbucks,
• Use $2 bills,
• Range,
• Foul barrels,
• Sight in,
• Home,
• “I love you”, and
• Honey-do list.

Yep, sounds complete.