“Excellent! I wanted to tell you another idea that came to me this morning when I woke up at four. I thought we could—” His stubby legs moved over the ground at a fast pace, and he was quickly out of earshot.
Really?
It was going to be one of those days, I just knew it.
Half an hour later, after I’d talked Mr. Henson out of the horrendous sculpture scheme he had in mind, my crew and I started and got an impressive amount of work done by lunchtime.
I sat on an overturned clay pot and chewed on an apple. My cell phone rang. It was Kyle.
“Hey, Clint. How’s the Energizer Bunny?”
I chuckled at the apropos reference. “You have no idea. You should have heard the idea he had for a kind of Greek pantheon. It was disturbing.”
Kyle started laughing uncontrollably.
“I’m glad you think it’s fun
