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Close to the tree

The other day I was going through the kids' bathrooms looking for socks when I ran into and knocked over the music stand in Amanda's bathroom.  Of course she has a music stand in her bathroom, I thought. Right. When I asked her later what was up, she said that she had put a book on the stand to read while taking a shower (through the clear shower curtain, of course). My first thought was for the book's safety. My second thought was, "Why didn't I think of that," followed shortly by "I wonder if that would work in our bathroom?" I have long held that one of the major problems with daily chores like showering, blow drying one's hair, and vacuuming is that it is difficult to impossible to read while doing them. Amanda seems to have found a partial solution, at least if you don't mind getting your book slightly wet... I might wait for the waterproof eBook, though.

100s of uses!

Eleanor looked at her new shampoo bottle and saw that it had 100 uses.  She wondered what the different uses were---Body wash?  Dog shampoo? Bug repellent? Can you think of some? Sometimes the actual meaning is much less exciting than the first reading.