Two, Four, Challenge

“Mike, run straight up four steps, then go right. I’ll hit you there.”

Columbus Street was known for its pick-up touch-football games. They used a Nerf ball - it didn’t fly as far but didn’t hurt when catching it. Or getting beaned in the head like had happened last play.

Today, some older kids had challenged the neighbourhood kids to a game. The older kids were taller but there was a two-to-one advantage in numbers for the younger kids. So far the score was even.

The game would go on until they got called in for dinner.

Two, To, Too

What was Noah thinking as the animals came marching up two by two? If it’d been me, my thought process might have gone something like this:

Two by two. That’s a pair.

Pears. Did we pack enough pears?

Did we pack a peck of pears?

What about the pickled peppers?

Can’t stand hot peppers. Gives me the wind fierce.

Wind. Maybe the ark should have a mast to hoist a sail.

Hark! Did you say you have an ark? I do. Learned how to build it in arkitechture class. You too?

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It’s probably just as well I wasn’t there…