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Star Wars lifesavers

Never having been a really big fan of the Star Wars movies, I suffered through a ìStar Warsî marathon last weekend. Two grandsons spent the weekend with us. They had a lot of energy. Among the many daily activities included fishing, practice hitting golf balls in the front yard, finding the raspberries and eating them, playing in the mud hole with Tonka trucks, putting together puzzles, coloring, playing Yahtzee, baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies, and a little sleep. When it was time to slow the boys down, they opted to view movies from my feeble collection of video tapes. The Star Wars Trilogy was the favorite. If I never have to see Return of the Jedi again, it will be perfectly fine. The movies were watched in this order: Return of the Jedi, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and the first one, what ever that is called.
Actually, it was the littlest guy who got stuck on the Return of the Jedi movie, he was enthralled with the Ewoks, I believe thatís how the furry little critters are referred to. I tried for an umpteenth viewing of Lion King, but it was Star Wars all the way.
When the boys were not watching the movies, they resorted to Star Wars play, creating Luke Skywalkerís ìlight sabersî out of a number of items around my house, including the glow stick from a previous Fourth of July celebration.
At one point the two were engrossed in building with a construction set, creating fabulous archways, bridges and all, and the next thing I knew the pieces were being put together to make ... you guessed it ... light sabers. The funny thing about the five-year-old, though, he thought they were called ìlifesaversî and insisted that he was right.
With the boys gone home, and that ìda,da,da,daaa,î Star Wars tune still ringing in my head, I found some respite Monday by going back to work. Then I went to take pictures of the circus in North Branch and, lo and behold, I found myself buying a certain circus toy for the little guy ñ a ìlifesaver.î Actually, itís a flashlight with an extension that looks very much like Skywalkerís famous wand. Now, I need a lifesaver. I think Iíll look into purchasing some different video tapes . . . Bambi, Little Mermaid, Jungle Book ... anything but Star Wars.

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