Kaple Rules

Do not talk with your mouth open when full of any green vegetable. Or Captain Crunch cereal.

Stoop to the eye level of children when you are talking to them. If you can’t stoop, kneel. If you can’t kneel, find a chair.

Do not put your bare hand into the dirt of a raised garden bed.

To understand life, fill all 4 car tires to the correct pressure and check one week later. Refill, and check again in a week. You’ll catch on, probably. Otherwise, repeat until lesson learned.

You are under no moral obligation to finish reading a book. You are under no moral obligation to read every word of a book. How you deal with assigned reading is your own damn business.

When scheduling outdoor events, expect foul weather. If the weather is fine, remember it’s not fine because you deserved it. Or anyone else for that matter. Just be grateful.

More often than not, most of the world will never give you a first thought, much less a second.

Of course you’re not here because you chose to be. Now what?

Reality check before bedtime: Contrast what you wanted to have happen during the day with what actually happened. Great or small, “thwarts” and all.

Seriously, you have maybe four or five friends who will be there for you no matter what.

Have both Phillips and flathead screwdrivers on hand. All of the time.

Rarely does anyone truly understand what is going on, but a few moments of insight now and then will get you through most likely.

And, yes, stop and smell the tea olives which are blooming profusely in my yard now, Zone 7b.