Dec. 18, 2006
Treasured Moments of Laughter and Peace -- AKA squirrel hunting
We took our little rat terrier, Crystal, to the park this weekend and let her chase squirrels. We had never done it before and she loved it and we all were able to wallow in her ecstatic joy. At one point I said, "I think she's treed about five squirrels." Gabo, who listens very closely to my words, even if he doesn't always do what I'm telling him, said, "But Mom, I thought you hated it when people turned nouns into verbs." I just laughed at the tiime, but I was a little worrried. Had I turned into one of those people who says things like "the project impacted"? But when we got home, the dictionary confirmed what I had thought, that "treed" is an acceptable past particle and past tense of "to tree" which can mean to chase up a tree or to cover and area with trees.
Treasured Moments of Laughter and Peace -- AKA squirrel hunting
We took our little rat terrier, Crystal, to the park this weekend and let her chase squirrels. We had never done it before and she loved it and we all were able to wallow in her ecstatic joy. At one point I said, "I think she's treed about five squirrels." Gabo, who listens very closely to my words, even if he doesn't always do what I'm telling him, said, "But Mom, I thought you hated it when people turned nouns into verbs." I just laughed at the tiime, but I was a little worrried. Had I turned into one of those people who says things like "the project impacted"? But when we got home, the dictionary confirmed what I had thought, that "treed" is an acceptable past particle and past tense of "to tree" which can mean to chase up a tree or to cover and area with trees.
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