Ignorance of Grammar No Obstacle to Political Career

From the AP:
"British Home Secretary Theresa May announced Monday that a police inspectorate will examine possible police corruption.

She told lawmakers that at moments like this 'it is natural to ask whom polices the police' . . ."

Natural--if you don't know the Queen's English.  Otherwise, you would ask who polices the police.  It is not the pronoun that is the object of the verb, but the whole indirect question.  The pronoun is the subject of this indirect question.

Nieces and nephews that read this blog: pay attention and Uncle John will reward you with candy.

By the way, it is nice to see "police" used as an adjective, verb and a noun in just two lines.

Furniture in Progress

No, I still have not finished the baby gate I showed you before.  But NOT because I am still sawing through that board!  Priorities shift . . .

The big summer project is to add new bunk beds, upstairs and down.  The first one is all painted and will go upstairs tomorrow.

(The metal rods just hold the end pieces for painting.)  The long sides are on the saw horses in the back.  The balls to the left are for the tops of the posts.  All sawing was done by hand, but I did use a router and a drill.

Inexpensive furniture is inevitably cheap.  I think these beds, by contrast, will last for some time.  Frankly, I am hoping the world ends first.  With huge, 1 inch thick tenons in closely fitting mortises, these beds will be able to handle kids jumping all over them.  If that happens, the kids may not fare as well as the beds . . .

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More Laurence

Laurence: Dad, how old will Juliana be when I grow up to an adult?
Me: She will be an adult, too.
Laurence:  What about Stephen?
Me:  He will be an adult, too.
Laurence:  When I grow up, there will be a ton of adults.

How they look right now

Funny how the kids can change subtly as they grow up and suddenly look like someone else--or no one else.  This is how Gregory and Naomi look today.  Gregory suddenly looks more like Alan and his cousin Michael than he did before.

Naomi looks more unique to me today, while still belonging to the family.  Am I missing a close resemblance to someone else?

Quotes from Laurence

Laurence has been pouring out much four-year-old wisdom of late.  I usually laugh and forget it, but to preserve a little for posterity, here was one from tonight's dinner:

"If they were to make chairs lower, but keep the floors the same, then my feet would touch the ground."