Running with Scissors

   Today the boys and their mother were running around with scissors, clipping wildflowers and assorted foliage. Their Fair entries for the Garden Department were due:  a hanging spider plant, a vase of wildflowers, a miniature log cabin arrangement, and an entry in the Unusual Container Dept., the container being a Lego-eater. 
    Cookies were entered yesterday:  oatmeal, chocolate chip, chocolate, sugar, snickerdoodles, peanut butter, molasses, and butter cookies.  All seem contenders for prizes, except the butter cookies would not roll out, and so were dropped on the cookie sheet like the rest of the cookies.  It doesn't seem butter cookies are meant to be treated this way, because they reciprocated by turning into solid blobs of dough, even baked.  Pity the judges, but occupational hazards exist in all areas. 
    P.S.  All 8 of the cookies received some award, most a first or second place.  Several were entered in 2 age divisions, where they received firsts in one category and second in the other.  The butter cookies were entered in both the under 12 and over 12 categories,   They received blue ribbons in each division.  I thought they were really bad, had considered throwing them out before entering them, when Ben valiantly tried to roll them out, but had to abandon that idea as they were way too  sticky.  But since I'd already paid the entry fee entered them anyway, hoping the judges wouldn't poke too much fun at them.  We ate every one of the cookies baked from the leftover cookie dough, except I did toss the butter cookies out the window.