I noticed my message about John on the 19th is missing! Perhaps it’s in a blog pocket somewhere and I have no idea what it said but I’m remembering a phone call he made to a mature friend, meaning she was over seventy. He asked her if he could come over and install a water filter. For the first few minutes she made sounds around the fact that she didn’t want to put him out. But upon realizing he wasn’t going to give up his mission I heard her through the phone say, “Well thank you, but give me an hour; I’m not dressed yet.”                                                                                                                                         In answer John thumped himself on the chest and said, “Be still my heart!”
Let me tell you, that made her day! You can see why John is such good fodder for my children’s books and he’s fun to draw too. See “Eagles and Banana Peels”  nancymauerman.com