bovinehost
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For over a week, it's been just me and the boy here at home. We've had a good time, mostly. Way less drama without his mom around! And he tells her on the phone the other day: "It's just us dudes, so we're going to have cold pizza for breakfast." I laughed, but he didn't forget. He came home Friday from school and said, "If we're going to have cold pizza for breakfast, you'd better get it tonight. I mean, you can't just order cold pizza, right?"
Um, yep! He's a smooth little thinker for being barely seven years old.
Anyway, I was fixing his bed up nice for him as he was getting out of the shower tonight and out of nowhere he says, "Daddy, I love you."
"I love you, too, son."
Long pause. "Do you know what I'm going to get you for your birthday?" Hmm, I just had a birthday, but okay, I'm game.
I say, "Well, I hope it's a bass."
He says, "Sterling lives in California, right? So we'll go to California with a big box filled with newspapers - we can't use a gift bag, I guess - and we'll go to Sterling's house and get him to make a Mister Horsepower."
(I've tried to explain the scarcity of the Mr Horsepowers and that they're really guitars, but by God, it's the coolest thing he's ever seen and he refuses to let go.)
I told him we could give it a shot.
Sterling, it just got me to thinking about what image he must have in his brain about you and the building of instruments. Does he imagine you have a little shop out back or that you do it in your garage? Sometimes I'll point out a Luke guitar and say, "You remember Luke?" He says, "Yeah, Sterling's friend." And then I tell him you make the Lukes, too, and he just nods and accepts it, but I do wonder what little movie he's formed about you and building guitars!
And he said to tell you hello.
Jack
Um, yep! He's a smooth little thinker for being barely seven years old.
Anyway, I was fixing his bed up nice for him as he was getting out of the shower tonight and out of nowhere he says, "Daddy, I love you."
"I love you, too, son."
Long pause. "Do you know what I'm going to get you for your birthday?" Hmm, I just had a birthday, but okay, I'm game.
I say, "Well, I hope it's a bass."
He says, "Sterling lives in California, right? So we'll go to California with a big box filled with newspapers - we can't use a gift bag, I guess - and we'll go to Sterling's house and get him to make a Mister Horsepower."
(I've tried to explain the scarcity of the Mr Horsepowers and that they're really guitars, but by God, it's the coolest thing he's ever seen and he refuses to let go.)
I told him we could give it a shot.
Sterling, it just got me to thinking about what image he must have in his brain about you and the building of instruments. Does he imagine you have a little shop out back or that you do it in your garage? Sometimes I'll point out a Luke guitar and say, "You remember Luke?" He says, "Yeah, Sterling's friend." And then I tell him you make the Lukes, too, and he just nods and accepts it, but I do wonder what little movie he's formed about you and building guitars!
And he said to tell you hello.
Jack
