Cousin Bruce says I need to use spell check before i put this on the internet "so people can friggin read it for pete's sake". I guess my spelling will get much better that way. Cousin Bruve also gave me a dictionary to look up new words because he says all great writers need to know lots of long words. My new word of the day is 'exaggerate'...."To overstate". An example of its use is: "the conflict was exaggerated by the media". Oh its like lying, sort of. Well i'll be sure not to exaggerate when i tell my stories.
I guess I should tell why my blog is called "stories from lazy eye ranch". Grandpa Jem called our ranch that in 1952 because my family has a "optical condition" called "lazy eye" where one of our eyes is a little droopyer than the other and that eye doesn't see as well as the other (spellcheck must not know the word droopy but it rhymes with snoopy). Some of us in our family have it worse than others. Grandpa Jem has it bad and has trouble driving his chevy at night. Dad won't let him drive at night anymore after he ran over our mailbox. My droopy eye is not too bad and gets a little better because Mom puts drops in it. I guess the doctor says that glasses won't help me any, but that the drops should make it ok until I get to puberty. I asked Cousin Bruce what puberty is and he pointed at the dictionary. I guess that will be tomorrows word. Cousin Bruce is going back to Santa Barbra tomorrow morning so i guess i am on my own with the computer and my blog. He says i can email him if i have any questions. I said i'll email him asking about tomorrows word and he had what Mom calls a "belly laugh". oh! i forgot to tell you how big the ranch is and how many horses and dogs we have. Oh well i guess i will save that for another day.
goodnight,
The boy