Weekend

Took Maija to March for Jesus with the boys Olli and Jasper. Left them and went to dig the plot. Joined them later downtown for a meal. Ate BBQ'd salmon and drank a pint of beer. Took the boys home and went to sauna with them.

Olli and Jasper were playing with a hose and an shower. Olli had the shower and Jasper had the hose. Olli was able to switch the water supply between the hose and the shower by pulling out a button. Olli was using the shower to spray Jasper and Jasper was getting mad. He wanted to soak Olli with the hose. Olli refused to switch the water over to the hose. Jasper got mad and shoved the hose in his mouth and bit on it with his teeth, and at that precise moment Olli relented and switched the water supply from the shower to the hose.

A tremendous jet of water shot into Jaspers mouth and most of it came out down his nose. Some might have even come out his ears and the small ducts at the corners of his eyes. Olli thought in incredibly funny that water was exploding from every orifice of Jasper's head. Jasper was coughing and spluttering and gasping for breath. Olli fell to the floor with laughter and began slapping the floor with his hand. Jasper was on his knees still blowing water out his nose. The more Jasper coughed the more Olli laughed. He was completely out of control. Jasper must have taken some water into his lungs, because he was coughing in the way that you do when you try to swallow food but it goes down the wrong way.

Olli was about to choke with laughter. He had got himself into one of those high screaming fits, where you get completely out of breath with laughing. Laughter that makes the veins stand out on your neck. So there they were both collapsed on the floor, Jasper dewy eyed and still spluttering spit from his mouth, and Olli scrunched up into a feotal position his eyes clenched into painful black slits.

I had to shower the both of them down to break the cycle. It was like separating dogs by throwing a bucket of water over them. I needed to do something to take their minds off coughing and laughing. The cold shower seemed to do the trick. Rather than being outraged they were rather passive and docile, and quietly went to got dried off and put their clothes on.

That's what you get when you play with water.