Honorable Mentions
Hannah was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society tonight, as were 170 other 7th and 8th graders at Bush Middle School. To my amazement (and gratitude), they finished in an hour. I’m considering this a dry run for Rachel’s high school graduation in June, when I’ll make sure every family member has at least one book or a DS Lite with fresh batteries in-hand for the duration. Her class has 650+ upcoming graduates. So maybe we’ll also pack water bottles and snacks. And blankets. And jammies.

The scholar and her parents. With three teenage daughters around, Keith and me, we ain’t too smart right now. Most evenings, we are totally void of any intelligence, say our progeny. But we’re a figurin’ we’ll get a whole lot smarter in ’bout 10 – 15 years.…

Keith usually stays home w/Julia (strict bedtime) on Wednesday nights while the older girls and I go to church. Tonight, Rachel and Lois had to take Julia with them. Rachel was so afraid she’d forget to run by the children’s room and pick up her youngest sister that she wrote “Julia” in what she thought was erasable marker on her hand. Well, it was a Sharpie. Fail! Honorable intention, though….

Still no real answer – but some Honorable Mentions….
Speaking of “Fail” – well, I still don’t have an answer to this puzzler. Friends contributed some Honorable Mentions, but none of the answers sang to me. Connie, Aimee and Lois all thought it might be the objects’ ability to make sounds. Well…they do….but dang, the boot is a stretch. Aimee and I also pursued an oil thread. Whales were hunted for oil, you have to oil a piano and a train, there is polishing oil for boots and it turns out even penguins have oil in them. But why not a spouted can? Or a dipstick? Or Jed Clampett? Mayme was thinking maybe they were the “largest” of something which they could be, but…. Vicki – who teaches – said based on her experience, a student’s real-life answer would be “ummmm…..” Renee – always the pragmatist – questioned whether teh bottom left object was really a penguin at all.
I’ve got a copy of this puzzler in my inbox at work and at home. I can’t file it or delete it until I’ve got an answer. Just can’t. It’s a matter of honor now.
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