"Well Slap Me Around And Call Me Susan!"

It's a line from a movie (Blankman).  Don't get riled.  No folks, it is in fact an exclamation of incredible shock, with just a smidgen of polyanish hopefulness!  Kaleb got his report card the other day, and the initial shock was he, in point of fact, ACTUALLY offered it up without us having to ASK FOR IT!  And with very good reason!  My heart skipped a sharp beat when I opened it up and lo and behold...MOSTLY A's and B's!! HUZZAH!  I say mostly 'cause there was one D, But at least NO failing grades!  Doing the Happy Pants Dance!  Hopefully, there will be no complacency or fall from grace for the young man.  Fingers crossed, here's hoping!
Elijah has returned from his work week away.  According to him, his employers were sufficiently impressed enough to invite him back for work next year.  This is a good thing, however, as is often the case with most young men entering the working world, he returned with a "cock of the walk, King $#!t" attitude (Think Fred Flintstone with Angi playing the part of Wilma. But not in the, Banjo playing, inbred mountain folk kind of way) and they had "words".  Words, which in fact spanned the length and breadth of the cellular towers, quickly reaching my ears.  This, in turn, resulted in Daddy having to take the young man to the proverbial "wood shed" via an ear piece.  Had to make the young man realize his position on the food chain had not, in fact, changed.  And yes, in expectation of having to have just such an encounter of words, I had my script mentally drafted!  Kids today (and perhaps in EVERY generation) forget, their parents were once thankless, disrespectful little crappers who thought they knew everything, once too.  It's not a hard stretch to fire up some synapses and access recent memory engrams, arriving at a regrettable summation of adolescent missteps we all have made!   It's called "wisdom".  And yes, I too, reluctantly admit, that I thought my father was full of $#!T too, when HE related HIS youthful transgressions as an example of what NOT to do!  What's the old, well worn adage? "You have NO idea what I'm going through!"  BOY HOWDY is that a truckload of malarkey!  We may have come from steam power to the microchip, but people, their problems, their tribulations and attitudes?  None of it is any different since back when the first teenage caveman stole his fathers fire and went out for a joyride!  It's just now we got "apps" for that!
ANYWHO!
These past few days have been eerily quite around here.  Can't figure out if folks are just shell shocked from the good weather we have been having, and too timid to tempt fate or the reverse is true and they are just out enjoying it?  Either way, too quiet.  Thankfully it seems that now, the initial shock may be wearing off for some, and they are coming to realize that going for a bike ride MAY be a good way to enjoy it, as we have seen several folks already today!  HUZZAH!  Keep it coming folks! 
So dig out the rides in the shed or garage or back yard, bring 'em down for a tune and get out there and RIDE!