Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for March 22, 2004
Transcript:
Joan: You sent Holly and Alix to California to build a house for charity? Val: It was Aunt Margie's idea. She thought the girls would benefit from the experience. Joan: So instead of wearing a bikini and getting ogled...Holly's wearing a toolbelt and getting...blisters? Val: Am I a genius or what??
when Holly grows up and needs to assemble a bookcase she’ll have the memory of being with a great-aunt and wearing that toolbelt, and when she gets that first house and wants to install a shelf or needs to fix a door that sticks etc it’s not going to look so hard when she can remember building a house. And the aunt said they’d have beach time