Big news on our street this week: the Spider Force has put up flyers. Finding a mystery for the Spider Force is now my life’s entire purpose. Before I saw the sign, it seemed like the world was full of crimes, robberies, and mysteries of all sizes. But now that I’ve started looking for them, I can’t find even one.
I had a secret crime-fighting-scientists club with my brothers when we were kids, and we were constantly thwarted by the lack of crime and bad guys in our vicinity. We had dossiers on imaginary villains and frequently patrolled the neighborhood in disguises. Then, one fall, our Halloween pumpkins were smashed by unknown perpetrators. We investigated that nefarious act intensely, even dusting the pumpkins for fingerprints. The crime remained unsolved. I send my best to Spider Force.
Greatest start to my day, my kids are home from school today and I feel like we need to head out into the vast neighbourhood of ours and sleuth some crimes. I foresee some weird garbage to report, maybe one found shoe, which I'll be honest, I think this might be the greatest mystery of all. How does one lose a shoe in the Canadian winter? I laughed out loud to your story which in this stage of a pandemic, is a gold mine :) Thank you!
The Spider Force sounds like they need a case of approximately 1000 rubber ducks appearing on their lawn, similar to the first event in the middle grade book FINALLY, SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS by Doug Cornett [which I don't highly recommend for you to read, but a few good kids mysteries that I do endorse: FRAMED by James Ponti and the TRULY DEVIOUS series by Maureen Johnson (which is YA, but just as fun and eccentric as a Mary Kate and Ashley detective book)]. (Can you tell I'm a bookseller who has been working remotely for the last year?)
Its 7am here in Amsterdam and this is already the pearl of my day! Yesterday my youngest of 9yrs old and I learned about the ‘Vigènere-square’, in a children’s book, to decode code language, and I felt like instantly doing anti-crime work with her :)
We don't have a Spider Force in our neighborhood and I did see a mystery yesterday morning. There were very strange tire tracks in our parking area. Not like a car unless there is some new kind of car with 8 tires very close together. I had to take a picture. I am still a bit baffled and would love some help with that, mostly so that I can let it go. Have you ever seen the movie (or read the book) Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made - he is a boy detective with a Polar Bear sidekick (that only he can see). It's wonderful.
I had a secret crime-fighting-scientists club with my brothers when we were kids, and we were constantly thwarted by the lack of crime and bad guys in our vicinity. We had dossiers on imaginary villains and frequently patrolled the neighborhood in disguises. Then, one fall, our Halloween pumpkins were smashed by unknown perpetrators. We investigated that nefarious act intensely, even dusting the pumpkins for fingerprints. The crime remained unsolved. I send my best to Spider Force.
Greatest start to my day, my kids are home from school today and I feel like we need to head out into the vast neighbourhood of ours and sleuth some crimes. I foresee some weird garbage to report, maybe one found shoe, which I'll be honest, I think this might be the greatest mystery of all. How does one lose a shoe in the Canadian winter? I laughed out loud to your story which in this stage of a pandemic, is a gold mine :) Thank you!
The Spider Force sounds like they need a case of approximately 1000 rubber ducks appearing on their lawn, similar to the first event in the middle grade book FINALLY, SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS by Doug Cornett [which I don't highly recommend for you to read, but a few good kids mysteries that I do endorse: FRAMED by James Ponti and the TRULY DEVIOUS series by Maureen Johnson (which is YA, but just as fun and eccentric as a Mary Kate and Ashley detective book)]. (Can you tell I'm a bookseller who has been working remotely for the last year?)
Its 7am here in Amsterdam and this is already the pearl of my day! Yesterday my youngest of 9yrs old and I learned about the ‘Vigènere-square’, in a children’s book, to decode code language, and I felt like instantly doing anti-crime work with her :)
I read this to my family and my daughter agreed that having a Spider Force in the neighborhood would be super awesome. 🕸️
Reading this was the best part of my day. Thank you!!
I LOVE your email updates! They’re always hilarious and cute :) thanks for sharing them, they make me happy.
We don't have a Spider Force in our neighborhood and I did see a mystery yesterday morning. There were very strange tire tracks in our parking area. Not like a car unless there is some new kind of car with 8 tires very close together. I had to take a picture. I am still a bit baffled and would love some help with that, mostly so that I can let it go. Have you ever seen the movie (or read the book) Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made - he is a boy detective with a Polar Bear sidekick (that only he can see). It's wonderful.
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