i see by looking at other's posts that there are two more questions for me to answer.

who is taller? dennis is, but he seems to be shrinking faster than i am. i think that is because i have better posture. he says he hunches over because he is always in pain! i want to say that he would be in much less pain if he wouldn't hunch over so much, but then we would get into another argument and then we would have to apologize again. sigh.

who is smarter? i want to say i am; most the time i think i am, but as soon as i say (or even think) something like that, i will do or say something so inane, and dennis will hear me, and he will laugh so hard and be so pleased that i can't stand it. it's much better to be humble like my sisters and say "we both are in different ways" (dennis' ways are very different). and then, too, i married him and he married me; who is smarter?

well, enough of that. i won't be able to let dennis read this as it is.

i went to the dentist today for a check up. no cavities. now my teeth feel very clean. the dental hygienist and i got into a conversation about grammar. she is from emery county, but spent a dozen years or so in the south. she was saying things she noticed about emery county grammar that were different from other places. she mentioned the "i seen" habit. i am used to that, because dennis says that lots of times. i used to try to correct him, but that just made him mad. now leslie sometimes tries to correct him; it doesn't make him as mad, but i have observed no noticeable change in his grammar.

i mentioned the one that strikes me as so weird. someone will say "she told harry and i about the game" or some such thing. i can't figure out why people do that. she didn't have an answer either. maybe she didn't see a problem with it, i don't know . anyway, she laughed. and my teeth are clean and cavity free.

for some reason today i thought of the day dennis and i took leslie and the fauverettes to joe's valley to cliff jump. two adolescent boys arrived about the same time we did. we put life jackets on the girls and we were all (the boys too) standing at the edge of the cliff looking way down, gathering enough courage to make the leap. all of the sudden tennyson just flew off the cliff and sailed down. i can remember it like slow motion. she wasn't very big, maybe seven or so. i can see her skinny little legs and her arms held out like wings, and the life jacket which looked like the biggest part on her. she splashed into the water and it didn't take her very long to come up, thank heavens. anyway, dennis and i had to hurry and jump in so we could make sure she was alright. the boys jumped in then too. then leslie and miranda. i don't remember if whitney jumped or not. that is a funny memory. i wish i had a picture of it to show you.