Todays Words

Recently we were blessed with a visit from a cousin from England who I had not seen in over 40 years, during our reminiscing and researching family connections I had to dig into my archives for some documents and stumbled across the following tall tale. My visitor found it most amusing in that having just taken a gentle stroll around our trails with me explaining how we removed our fuelwood from the bush with minimal impact to the surrounding flora he understood that every word was true!


Originally written for my granddaughter who was at the time learning about opposites I present it here for your enjoyment...... and so I can say I have posted something recently!!


Todays Words
YOUNG & OLD, BIG & LITTLE, LONG & SHORT, LARGE & SMALL


Once upon a time there was an OLD grandfather who lived in a forest at the top of a BIG hill with his YOUNG son and BIG wife. One day the OLD grandfather decided to go into the forest and cut down two BIG OLD dead trees, so he hooked up his BIG trailer to his LITTLE bush buggy, loaded his chain saw and started down the LONG trail down the LITTLE hill, through the pines and past the pond. Then he came to a BIG hill that the LITTLE buggy could not pull the BIG trailer up, so he left the trailer at the bottom of the BIG hill and called his YOUNG son to bring the SMALL tractor with the LITTLE trailer and continued down the LONG trail to where the BIG OLD dead trees stood. Now the two BIG OLD dead trees were leaning against a LARGE YOUNG maple and when he cut a SHORT log off the bottom of the first the BIG OLD dead tree it dropped down a SHORT way and still remained standing. And when he cut a second SHORT piece of the BIG OLD dead tree it dropped down a SHORT way and still remained standing, and this happened 5 time before the tree fell over. By now the YOUNG son had driven the SMALL tractor with the LITTLE trailer down the LONG trail down the LITTLE hill, through the pines and past the pond over the BIG hill to where the BIG OLD dead trees stood. So after cutting the rest of the BIG dead OLD tree into BIG SHORT logs the OLD grandfather and his BIG wife loaded the BIG SHORT logs into the LITTLE trailer and the OLD grandfather with his YOUNG son drove the SMALL tractor with the LITTLE trailer with its BIG load of SHORT BIG logs back down the LONG trail over the BIG hill to where the BIG trailer waited and unloaded the BIG SHORT logs from the LITTLE trailer onto the BIG trailer. Then they turned around and went back the LONG the LONG trail over the BIG hill to where the other BIG OLD dead tree stood.
Then the OLD grandfather helped the YOUNG son and the BIG wife to load up the LITTLE trailer again and sent the YOUNG son and the BIG wife back down the trail with the SMALL tractor with the LITTLE trailer with its BIG load of SHORT BIG logs back down the LONG trail over the BIG hill to where the BIG trailer waited. Whilst they were doing this he cut a SHORT piece off the second BIG OLD tree that was leaning against the BIG YOUNG maple and…..guess what? The BIG OLD dead tree dropped down a SHORT way and still remained standing, and when he cut a second SHORT piece of the BIG OLD dead tree it dropped down a SHORT way and still remained standing, and this happened 5 time before the tree fell over. By this time the YOUNG son and the BIG wife had unloaded the BIG SHORT logs from the LITTLE trailer onto the LARGE trailer, turned around and driven back the LONG the LONG trail over the BIG hill to where the other BIG OLD dead tree used to stand. And so after cutting the second BIG OLD dead tree up into BIG SHORT logs the OLD grandfather and the YOUNG son and the BIG wife once again loaded up the BIG SHORT logs into the LITTLE trailer and they all went back down the trail with the SMALL tractor with the LITTLE trailer with its BIG load of SHORT BIG logs back down the LONG trail over the BIG hill to where the BIG trailer waited. They unloaded the BIG SHORT logs from the LITTLE trailer onto the LARGE trailer and hooked the SMALL tractor onto the LARGE trailer and set off down the LONG trail, back past the pond, through the pines with the BIG load of SHORT BIG logs on the LARGE trailer, but then they came to a LITTLE hill and the LITTLE tractor was not able to pull the LARGE trailer with the BIG load of SHORT BIG logs up the LITTLE hill so they left the BIG trailer at the bottom of the LITTLE hill and all went home. The following day the OLD grandfather started his LARGE tractor, went down the LITTLE hill, hooked up the BIG trailer with its BIG load of SHORT BIG logs to the LARGE tractor and pulled it up the LITTLE hill to the shed so that he could make SMALL LITTLE pieces of the BIG SHORT logs to put in the wood stove to keep his YOUNG son and BIG wife warm for the LONG winter! The End