Lazuli had said,
"You will go to the house, and then we will come to you." It was like asking me, "Is it not so?" And I said, "Yes." And she said, "I don't want you to go." I didn't want to leave her... again.
Naphi and I ran up the hill of sand.
"Come on Naph, you can do it!" Whenever he and I undertake climbing a tree, I encourage him and he always makes it up the hardest ones. He climbs as well as I and he's half as big. Hearing what I said, he put his last effort into it, worming his toes in for a grip to push himself higher. If we didn't make it, we'd both die. Naph had to make it, but I had to as well. As soon as I was over, I reached down and used all my remaining strength to pull him up after me. We tumbled down the other side, and I knew we would make it.
You guys, Naph is awesome! He keeps going and going, trying and trying! He lets people push him into the next success!
McKennaugh's famous least favorite new food she tried at our house, triticale tastes like it's un-shelled. Other than that there's nothing wrong with it; I don't know why Ephraim makes such a big deal about it being so bad. I enjoy it. That's what we had for breakfast with brown sugar and butter.
I opened the front door to the part where it gets stuck, re-positioned, and jerked it open the rest of the way.
The wind blew in, the sky was overcast. Yes! My second-favorite weather!
Around here, the leaves are falling. Don't you love that about fall--wherever there's a deciduous tree, there's a leaf or two coming down gently, moving to one side or the other as it's blown by the breeze that dropped it.
"I have two halves of my brain!" I said. "One of them is laughing at a part I'm going to write in my story, and the other one is listening to you describe your way of closing up the back door!"
"Oh yeah," he said. "Well I have six!"
"Oh yeah--" I started.
"And Aaron has..." He paused for effect. "Limitless!"
Well, that's the end.
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