THE ADVENTURES OF JJ PICKLETOES

Family Vacation.  Where do you like to go for your family vacation?  Do you like to fly or do you like to drive?  I like both, but I have never been on an airplane, so my favourite so far is a road trip.  When you are on a road trip,   you can sleep like Joseph does…

  Is it always better?  . You would hope so.  . I am not sure that everything has improved.  . It used to be, that before you made a phone call you had to look up the person’s phone number,  in the phone book.  .  Then you would dial it.  .…

  Have you ever been there?  . Not many people have been there.  . Are you thinking about the Eiffel Tour?  . The Louvre?  . Big Ben?  . Neuschwanstein Castle?  . It isn’t one of those places.  . This week my friends and I, along with our Moms went to a famous place right here in Manitoba.  . The Blumenort Splash…

Have you ever had one of those weeks?  . One of those weeks when everything seems to happen at once.  . It was like that for me.  . There was a lot happening this week.  . I had to help my Dad replace a sand filter on a pool.  He usually can do this job by himself…

. It was the 146th annual Carman fair this year.  It was my Grandma’s 40th high school reunion.  This is my 100th episode of The Adventures of JJ Pickletoes.  . I hadn’t been to the Carman Fair before this year, and I still haven’t been to the fair.   I didn’t go to my Grandma’s 40th high school reunion.  I did go to the 146th annual Carman Fair Parade.  I am writing…

  Sloths.  Have you ever seen a sloth?  . I saw a couple the other day at the zoo.  We were on our annual trip to the zoo.  It was JoJo’s first trip to the zoo.  . I have been here so many times that the Sloths recognized me.  .…

It looked like a big job.  . All jobs look big to Joseph and I.  . It looked like Dad needed us.  . He was trying to do a job for Grandma and Grandpa with the parts that Grandpa had in his bin.  . The bin Grandpa had on the…

I got it. . I got it from my cousin.  . He didn’t think that he could pass it on,   but he did.  . I didn’t think that I would get it so soon,  I can hardly talk yet.  . I know adults that have had it and have had it bad.  . You know the disease. …

  Do you know what a plumb bob is?  I didn’t.  Until a few days ago.  I had to learn to use a plumb bob to line up the end of the new beam that was being built for the new landing on the deck stairs.  You may remember my story about the…

  It’s new.  . Mom just got it the other day.  . I was hoping that Mom or Dad would be using it, that doesn’t seem to be the case.  . I am talking about the new lawnmower.   . I know a teenager down the street from my grandparents who is 12 and he is…