When Carolyn was a little girl her father had a dairy farm to help raise his strong, talented, and ambitious sons. My father managed to get his sons delivering papers in the wee hours of the morning and thinning beets in the summer heat. But what does a city dwelling father do nowadays? Well, if you're my son Edward you bring the boys over to Grandma & Grandpa's house and teach them how to mow and edge the lawn.
Of course we're the happy recipients of such efforts and appreciate both the work they do and the skills and self motivation they are learning. I just wish we had been around when they finished so we could have taken them out for an ice cream reward.
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