Abe,
I'm sorry that I do not put more here for you as the days rocket past. Living doesn't leave much time for reporting on living. These days you are obsessed with trucks and heavy equipment of all sorts, particularly excavators, bulldozers and front-loaders. You have all the construction sites around town mapped out and will tell us when we are approaching a place where construction is being done, or has been done, since you developed this fascination with earth moving. You will point to a vacant lot and make a sign and mechanical noise. We respond, “That's right, we did see a backhoe parked here last month, didn't we?” Happily, it's not all machinery; you do the same when we go past duck ponds too. After Mama and Dada, 'duck' was your first truly recognizable word.
Pa-