We had Princess Sack of Potatoes over today.\u00a0 She\u2019s finishing off her Spring vacation from school.\u00a0 And we haven\u2019t had much of her time in a while.\u00a0 Sure, she was here for Easter but her cousins were also here so I didn\u2019t get much chance to spend time.\u00a0 But today we had fun.\u00a0 I\u2019m installing a 270-gallon pond liner for Camera Girl, so I\u2019m digging a big hole in the ground and working with a shovel, rake, pitch fork and a wheelbarrow so it\u2019s like incredibly exciting for a little kid.\u00a0 She wants to help and I have to find something that isn\u2019t dangerous or too hard for a little girl but seems useful to her.\u00a0 So, I told her to rescue earthworms from the pile of grass turf that I stacked up.\u00a0 Perfect!\u00a0 She can get her hands covered with dirt and give Camera Girl some worms for her hideous African Clawed Frog and I\u2019m free to move some rocks and dirt.\u00a0 After about an hour she had enough and went inside to bake chocolate chip cookies with Camera Girl and I continued on until lunchtime when I finished for the day and took a shower.\u00a0 So, after lunch she wanted to watch the \u201cMinions\u201d movie which I\u2019ve had enough of.\u00a0 So, we went our separate ways.\u00a0 But after that she wanted more movie time so Camera Girl suggested \u201cThe Princess Bride.\u201d\u00a0 The little girl agreed to watch it and I decided to join her to see how she reacted to this time capsule of a movie.<\/p>\n
And it was pretty funny how her initial reaction to the movie resembled the behavior of the \u201cgrandson\u201d played by Fred Savage when his grandfather (Peter Falk) began narrating the story.\u00a0 Both the real and fictitious grandchildren were annoyed by the story beginning with a love story introduction.\u00a0 And her reaction also resembled the child character whenever it seemed that the \u201cheroes\u201d of the story were losing to the bad guys.\u00a0 There was a sense of outrage and the desire to quit the story.\u00a0 It was only with great persuasion that I convinced her to hang in there after Wesley had been killed by \u201cthe Machine.\u201d\u00a0 And so, I was immensely pleased when by the end of the movie she was very satisfied with the happily ever after ending.<\/p>\n
And after the movie I discussed her opinions about the film and she declared that her favorite character was the \u201cOgre.\u201d\u00a0 I corrected her by saying that Fezzik wasn\u2019t an ogre but a giant.\u00a0 And that Andr\u00e9 the Giant who played the part was a professional wrestler.\u00a0 She was very interested in how he did some of the stunts.\u00a0 I explained to her that the \u201cholocaust cloak\u201d wasn\u2019t real and he was never on fire.\u00a0 And I said he didn\u2019t really have to climb \u201cThe Cliffs of Insanity.\u201d\u00a0 And the reason she liked him best was because he seemed very jolly.<\/p>\n
After that she joined her grandmother in several very competitive games of checkers and then it was time for her to go home with her mom.\u00a0 After she left, I inspected several of the historical photos of the Princess festooning our refrigerator and looking at a noticeably younger me and a tiny little girl in one picture reminded me very powerfully that the clock is ticking at an alarming rate.\u00a0 But it was a good day to be a grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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