Tiny Pineapple

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Are You Disappointed? You Can Consult Me…

My dear friend, Kate (an unabashed turophile, though that has nothing to do with this particular story), has a great fondness for all things wee. (She is, after all, the one who came up with the name “Tiny Pineapple.”) If you ever have the opportunity to go shopping with her, you can tell when she has found an especially cute, petite, or diminutive object because she will start emitting a soft cooing sound while cradling the tiny trinket in her hands.

This cooing over the object is usually followed by the purchasing of the object but, since she can’t bring herself to buy these things for herself, she has to do it under the guise of “Oh, I’m just getting it as a gift for someone else.” I’ve been the recipient of many of these Lilliputian gifts over the years, but my favorite was a pair of tiny, little notepads with tiny, little pencils that she gave me for my birthday about ten years ago.

Are You Disappointed...?
Are You Disappointed…?
I Am Happy Today...
I Am Happy Today…

I stumbled upon them again as I was going through a few old boxes the other day and my daughters immediately appropriated them to use as miniscule sketchbooks. But I’ll get some use out of them, too. I figure if I start using that first phrase as a pick-up line at parties, the second is sure to follow.

Locust in the Vineyard

A Christmas gift from my sister, Amy…

Kasugai Grape Gummy
Kasugai Grape Gummy

Enjoy the softness of gentle breeze that sweeps through the vineyard spread vast on the hill in each soft and juicy Kasugai Grape Gummy.

I tried, but I was only able to enjoy the softness of gentle breeze for approximately 10 seconds before my daughters, nieces, and nephews swept through the vineyard spread vast on the hill and stripped the vines of every last soft and juicy Kasugai Grape Gummy.

We Catch That

A friend of mine teaches a beginning business class to Upper School students at the same school that my daughters attend. As a final project, her students had to break into groups and develop a business plan for a venture of their own choosing.

A group of foreign exchange students from Korea decided that their entrepreneurial effort would be a wig shop. The business plan was broken into sections and the various sections were assigned to the various members of the group. The writing of the “Executive Summary” fell to a young Class 9 student who, bless his heart, has only been in the U.S. since January and whose English skills are…well, still a little rough.

Here it is, in its entirety:

Executive Summary

My business is waiting for a baldheaded person and fall down the hair People. Because we are make bout wig. My company some caller are Old People. Any way we want plan we have to find about what state many people live old man. Then we open that state. We sell about wig and precaution medicine about loss of hair. We divide sell part. Wig is selling about old people and precaution medicine is selling about middle age. Then we make event to wig caller. And different wig put and take off. All old man want looks Young. We catch that. We sell the old man then we think about the old man That is first thinking. And we make event to middle age. Then we show the different part, animal experimentation then give to we company are good and reliable company.

That is, indeed, first thinking.