{"id":521,"date":"2011-05-04T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wednesday-may-4-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T17:13:00","slug":"wednesday-may-4-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wednesday-may-4-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday May 4, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Geneva;\">Adam&#8217;s first creative writing assignment.  At least, the first one I found out about. The difference between boys and girls, I have been discovering during these school commutes, is that girls tell you about every ache and pain and minor incident in 500 words and they reiterate every story at least three times, &#8220;Did I ever tell you about that time I dreamed that Carson was crying in his crib &#8230;..&#8221; and boys barely remember to tell you the essentials, like the fact that someone&#8217;s having a birthday party the next day and you don&#8217;t need to pack a lunch.  He finished this one at home so I got lucky enough to not only hear about it, but to see it.  The assignment: To have a problem and solve it. His problem: the fence got knocked down.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Geneva;\"><br style=\"font-family: Geneva;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Geneva;\">The Corn Field<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Geneva;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Geneva;\">I have a cornfield.  It is ten miles long.  But sometimes the fence gets nocked down.  So I made the fence stronger.  Now I have to plow the field.  And now I have to plant the field.  I have a big tractor.  It has twenty wheels.  And it is a John Deer.  Now the seeds have to grow.  And now I have to harvest the corn.  And now we have corn day in June.  Then we will eat it.  And can it.  And put it in jars.  And stack it on shelfs.  And save it and save it.  Til the shelfs are full.  And wate till next winter.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Geneva;\"><br style=\"font-family: Geneva;\"><span style=\"font-family: Geneva;\">He did ask me later if we have corn day in June and I said more like August.  But if he lived in Georgia it could be June.  He says he has a special kind of corn that grows terribly fast.  I figure that fits with the twenty wheel tractor and ten mile field, don&#8217;t you.  And clearly by the time we hit packaging on corn day, he is out playing in the mud, not helping or observing.  So just in case you are dying of curiosity, we do put our corn in the freezer.&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/winky.gif\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam&#8217;s first creative writing assignment. At least, the first one I found out about. 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