The Buckets by Greg Cravens for April 11, 2024

Now don’t be gruff . . . .

I used to love my mother reading that story to me. With each larger billy goat she would make her voice louder and more ominous. I read it that way to my grandchildren now.

I’ve always enjoyed fresh takes on old tropes. Or was that fresh hake on old tripe?

They cleaned up on that homeless waif and proved that they were the Greatest Of All Time!!

In kindergarten, back in the day when there was such a thing as minus first grade, we had a wooden bridge in the classroom, so we could act out the Three Billygoats Gruff.

Getting kind of tired of this story line. Let’s get the lights back on!

She got mad when the billy goats ate the pizza boxes.

This sounding familiar. like family life in their household.

“Old trope.” LOL

Smart boy to know the word “trope” at his age.