"they keep those letters in the barn"

so we're going apple picking tomorrow. we're going to Keown Orchard, which I used to always bring my RISD residents to, but my parents have never been to it.

as usual, Mum is calling it "McCouns Orchard" instead of Keown Orchard. When I correct her, she laughs and Dad says "well it should be Macouns, why the hell isn't it?"

"I don't know dad, why don't you ask them tomorrow?"

dad says "I'm going to. I'm going to say 'where is you M.C.?' and they will say Barnstable,... Barnstable, MA. And that's where they keep the M and C. The M's are in the barn and the C's are in the stable."

ok.

currently he is yelling about "corn juice" on the stove.

new house

now that my parents are getting older, they've been fiendishly searching for a new, smaller house. The one they currently have set their sites on, an old ramshackled lean-to from the 1700's, is desperately in need of renovations. My dad, in one of his "silly" moods, after being stuck in MassPike traffic for 2 hours, described to me the renovations on our "new" house, should we move there.

-"there will be an opal door,...so that we can always find it"
-"the house will be painted chartreuse" (because he likes the word "chartreuse")
-"a powder blue trim"
-"and celery green shutters"


beautiful.