Nicole and I went to the library and then to Home Depot. I wanted to get materials to make a coat rack to hang in the pantry and a second rod to put in Danny and Kelly’s closet.

The night before we had all gone to the Meadows for a Tiger Cub meeting to pick up the pinewood derby kit for Danny. After finding everything, I told Nicole we needed to find sandpaper to work on Danny’s car. We looked up and down a few aisles when Nicole said, “Maybe you can get one of the pieces off the roof.”

“Do you think the roof is made of sandpaper?” I asked her.

“Yes,” she replied, surprised to hear that it might not be.

I agreed that shingles looked like sandpaper, and went on to give a quick shingle lesson. I wonder if Carol thinks her roof is made of sandpaper.

Girls should clean out the gutters just like boys.