WUITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY. AUGUT 2,1989, PAGE 5 Welcome to Fantasy World. Here, your dreanis will become reality, your wishes, tomorrow. Take that chap over there; yeah, the one with the basebail cap which says Fifty but Frisky. Is fantasy would be to spend a summer lounging, around the house,' playing the dutiful father looking after his four-year-old daughter. In his spare time he would read books, paint bedrooms, build a patio, remodel the kitchen and convert. the basement into a family room and home workshop. For fun he would invite ail the neighborhood kids in for a rock painting contest. On off days he- would organize a neighborhood basebail ganie. He would run miles in the early morning sunshine, prune bis roses just before Sundo each day, and' folks would corne from -miles around just te admire bis garden. Corne; let us visit bis living fantasy. First thing you will notice will be the Gloucette Raisins on the front walk. The child did that five days ago, grinding the tasty treats into the bricks so the would be poison te the ants. The sugar, she sid would rot the ants teeth and without teeth the insects would.starve to death. Some time next week he will. get around te sweeping up the ant poison. In the hallway you will notice a mound of grass. This is known as bug food, specifically for the Preying Mantis, which now occupies the Bug Bottie. The clippings will be vacuumed when he next gets around te vacuuming, say about three weeks. Here in the living room we have a.pile of cushions from the sofa and love seats. What you see is an igloo. Efforts te restore the cusbions will bé met with some opposition. In the kitchen, you will notice the chair beneath the cookie jar, «wbich was step one of a ladder to the larder. On the floor a trail of a tbick liquid. Struck by the frenetic activity of the ants. The Cbild has plotted te feed the little critters some honey. If they have enough te eat they won't need to break into the WITH OUR~ There! Sea that open umbrella by the window, the one right next te the computer terminal? You're likely asking yourself, why would anyone'open an umbrella MiM indoors. L FEET UP by Bill Swan Welcome Fant asy World kitchen, will they? Let us, repair te the family room, where the floor is stunninýgly covered with littie bits of cellophane. This is excelsior from Easter baskets, eut up into, littie, pieces. Next vacuuming. that, too, will be cleaned up. A natural response that. Afrer ail, you couldn't be expected to know that the umbrella got propped there the day the master of the house turned on the sprinkler in the backyard and forgot about the open window and the computer monitor and keyboard soaked up enough moisture to grow a nice thick lush carýpet of a lawn. Oh,, that peanut butter, jar on the windowý sili. What have we here? Four rocks, that's what, covered in water so's theyll sprout. There's much,' much more we could see had we time te, tarry. Like those detailed scale drawings on the chuld's play table. Why that looks like . . It is! ý.. scale drawings of the kitchen and basement; projects. Aw! And isn't that cute. Some child has taken those plans and coiored them, ever so pretiy. SWe could-peek inte the basement andthere see a pile' of 400 tÎwo-by-fours, ordered at early in the summer in a fit -of optimism. In the. garage, you will find piles of léft-over firewood (stili to, be trimmed),. woioden skids; fromý a brick delivery, several ' broken toys, >a desk that; has'been waiting five Y'ears te be refimshed, a workbench that some day will be býuilt. Before yýou leave, tiptoe into the garde n. Here the master of the bouse deftly describes te, a four-year-old why she cannot cut more roses. And while he talks, The Obild calmly clips five more with short stemis. ,We would stay and discusa tbe role of fantasies in everyday 'living. But; someone must cook. dinner, do dishes,' accompany the child te the playground, supervise a bath, read five steries and get someone to, sleep. In bis sparetime, he sleeps. An *d'fantasis about the sumnmer's end, when he can ditch. aIl this 'and return te wvork.,:And someone else will catch up- on ail the household rou'tine. Volun teers needed for Volunteers are needed for the school year 1989/90 té assist with theKids on the Block prograLm. Kids on the Block is a troupe of disabled an d non-disabled life size puppets wbich promotes accep- tance and awvareness of' disabi- lities te school aged cbildren. Al volunteers would be required te follow a 4-6 week training course, then go te varlous schools in Durham Region once a week (approximately four hours a week). Anyone interested in devoting time to a worthwbile project can attend one of the following orientation sessions: Wednesday Aug. 16 at 3:30 p.m. or Tuesday, Aug. 22 at 7:30 p.m.. 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