One valentines day when my daughter, the brilliant Rebekkah asked me,

" Dad, when you were 18 what did you want to get from a girl."

I just dead panned her until she realized what she had said, she said "Oh." Turned red and ran from the kitchen.

When I was in the Boatyard one of my jobs was sand blasting hulls prior to painting. We used Black Beauty BB Blast which always covered me with a dark gray dust. I walked home for lunch and because I was going right back at in a half hour I didn't shower but ate sandwiches with Bekkah on the porch and headed back to work. When I got home that evening my wife told about little blond Bekkah in the check out line at the store looking at her 3.5 year old arms and asking,

"Mommy. how come Daddy is so black and I'm so white?"

This silenced fours aisles of shoppers in the Baldwinsville P&C.

Don