The Magpie is 16 years old.

Magpie is the rancher’s daughter’s daughter.

It seems like yesterday that she was just a wee thing.

They grow up so fast.

She got her driver’s license.

She got a car.

A really pretty red car.

She wants to go go go all the time.

Of COURSE she does!

She is a lifeguard.

She will be working at the Water Park this summer.

Magpie’s middle name is Leotie, which is a Native American name that means “flower of the prairie.”

I love her middle name.

Her true first name is not Magpie, but she has always been pretty much like a Magpie.

Magpie: a person who chatters, and collects odds and ends.

So that nickname sort of “stuck” many years ago.

Except: pre birth we called her NEMO.

Then Magpie was born and had a completely full head of hair. HAIR. And then lost it.

She was a fat baby, 10 pounds to be exact! So she was a fat baby for a brief time with NO hair.

LB called her Alfred. You follow? Alfred, as in HITCHCOCK! That is just LB’s way, sinister and don’t stir. (Big Grin. He’s a honey!)

She thinned up, she is a healthy child, always was.

She is a skinny, tanned, lifeguard blond.

WITH hair, and NOT fat.

HANDS OFF!