Just the good ol’ boys, never meanin’ no harm

My sister called this morning while she was in the middle of painting my nephew HE's Pinewood Derby car. I guess HE wants his car to look like the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard.

Amy said it was becoming quite the ordeal.

"You know painting it to look like the General Lee is harder than you would think," she said.

She continued, "Why couldn't he have picked brown? I can totally do brown. I would have no trouble making this car look like crap."

Just had to laugh.

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Karen said…

Spongebob cupcakes, Toaster Strudel art, the General Lee. It must be love. I spent an hour last night at Target, in the doll aisle, looking for the perfect non-girly doll for the Monkey's school project. HE refused to enter the "pink aisle," and yelled back and forth with me from the Legos, two aisles down...

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