While watering the plants in the flower beds out front, Harrison and I started up a conversation.
Me: "Oh, Bubba. Did you water the lavender? I can smell it, and it smells nice."
Bubba sticking his head in the lavender bush: "I smell it, too.".
Me: "Here. Take some of the purple pieces off and squish them in your hands. People use the oil from these and make soap and stuff because it smells so nice."
Bubba: "Mom? Did they have soap when you were little?"
Me, dumbfounded: "Uh, yeah."
Bubba: "And did they have lavender that long ago, too?"
Me: "That long ago, huh? Yep, they had lavender, too."
Bubba excitedly: "I didn't know pioneers had soap and lavender!"
And there goes my ego.
