My flip-flop went on an adventure without me.

One day a lonely little black flip-flop, whose name was Lefty, was lying on the floor of a very messy closet. As it lay there, it saw the cover of an old National Geographic. The magazine had a picture of white-water rafting on the cover, and the flip-flop decided that white-water rafting looked like a lot of fun.

"Hey, Righty! Do you want to go white-water rafting with me?" Lefty yelled across the closet. Righty and Lefty were twins, but they did not think alike.

"What?" screeched Righty (if a flip-flop can screech). "Are you crazy? No thank you!"

"Oh," said Lefty, disappointed. "Well, I'll just have to go by myself then."

"Why don't you ask our Owner?" suggested Righty grumpily. "She likes you better anyway."

"How do you know that?" Lefty asked curiously.

"I have deeper heel marks in me than you do."

Lefty thought about that. "Maybe that means she likes *you* better."

An argument began, stopped only when their Owner grabbed them out of the closet and put them on her feet.

"Yuck," mumbled Righty. "She needs to wash her feet."

"Be nice," admonished Lefty.

"Mmph," was all Righty could manage. After a long, hot car ride, the Owner began walking again and soon Righty and Lefty were swinging back and forth, high in the air.

"What...is she...DOING?" Righty screamed to Lefty between swings.

"I don't...know, but...isn't it...FUN?" Lefty screamed back.

Soon the swinging stopped, and then their Owner began walking in several inches of cool water.

"At least this will clean off her feet," gurgled Righty, under water.

"WHAT?" said Lefty, because the water drowned out Righty's words.

"I said, this will clean off her feet!"

"WHAT?"

Suddenly, Lefty was swept off their Owner's foot and dragged into the current. The Owner and the Owner's Niece ran wildly after Lefty, skidding on the slippery rocks. Much yelling ensued as Lefty hurtled down the smooth waterway.

Lefty fell over a curve of the rock and plunged completely under for a second. Then, due to Lefty's buoyant nature, Lefty popped back up again and was swirled around and around and around...and around and around...and around...

Soon Lefty became dizzy. Rocks splashed loudly into the whirlpool near Lefty, throwing off Lefty's circles momentarily. Long jagged branches stabbed the water and then floated past. Still Lefty spun around and around.

Just as Lefty was about to give up hope, a small tan hand plucked Lefty up and out of the water. Lefty was thrown up, up, up, back to the hands of the Owner. The Owner yelled a desperation-laced "THANK YOU!!!" to the owner of the small tan hand and immediately put Lefty back on her foot.

"What happened to you??" queried Righty. "Where'd you go?"

"Ooofff..." puffed Lefty. "Just give me a minute..."

"Well," Righty mused at the end of Lefty's story, "at least you got to go white-water rafting."

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And that, my friends, is the long-awaited Tale of the Flip-Flop. Now that I've finished that, look for the Mumford Report soon to follow. :)

Explanation for previous photo

The reason I posted a picture of Pauley Perrette is because that's the photo I was using for my "other" blog's profile, as I stated way back at the beginning of the blog (http://puttheyabbiesback.blogspot.com). When I converted my blogs from the Old Blogger to the New Blogger and added both my blogs to my Google account, it automatically put the signature and profile from my first "real" blog on both blogs. I wanted to change it back to the way it was before we changed to the New Blogger, but that was not possible as far as I could see, so I just decided to change everything to the way I had it on my "other" blog. To do that, I had to change my name and location and add a picture. In order to post a picture to Blogger if you don't have it hosted somewhere, you have to post a picture on your blog, then switch Blogger to Edit HTML mode (don't ask), and copy/paste the picture into your profile. Since the process is long and complicated for me, by the time I went back to actually delete the posted picture off my blog, my dear Hattie/Laura had already commented!!! So then I didn't have the heart to delete. Ah, I'll leave it up there -- no worries. Besides, I'm having NCIS withdrawal anyway over the summer season, so it'll be nice to see Pauley once in a while. Cheers.