Roger that. Over.

Walkie Talkies!

The unlikely subject of this post is... walkie talkies!  This past week, a mysterious package arrived in the mail from my aunt Janie.  Inside, of all things, we found a sleek zippered pouch, containing all the components for a set of walkie talkies.  We're talking the real deal here. These are walkie talkies that Janie's late husband Bob had used when he was marshalling at the race track.  It took us a little while to get them working -- one of them just would not charge properly, and we didn't realize at first that if you peeled back the battery pack, it was really just three double A's.  So, after swapping those out - voila!  

Mid-woods walkie-talkie adventure

 You would not believe the amount of walkie-talkie-ing that has been going on since then.  Certainly, it is all we heard around the house this weekend:

"Bleep! Juniper, can you hear me? Over".
"Bleep! Roger that, Linden. I am downstairs.  I repeat, I am downstairs.  Over and out".

(This sort of banter would be interspersed with Clark trying to remind Linden that they were "walkie talkies",  and not "runnie shouties", and me trying to drill into Juniper that she didn't need to press the walkie talkies directly into her mouth to be heard).

Sometimes, these two are true besties. Sometimes.

Of course, simply using the walkie talkies around the house was not enough.  We had to do some honest-to-goodness experiments.  The first of these involved Linden and I walking to a set of stores around a kilometre away, while Juniper and Clark stayed home.  We communicated the whole way, and even had conversations from INSIDE the store.  Linden was blown away.  "Walkie talkies are WAY cooler than phones!" he enthused. Secondly, we all descended on Shubie Park, and quickly parted ways.  Juniper and I went in one direction; Linden and Clark in the other.  We had crisp, clear communication the entire time. Apparently, Linden couldn't help but tell every stranger they met that he had REAL walkie talkies. They are, to put it mildly, a very big hit.

I'll leave you with yet another JuniperAndLinden.org original, in case you wanted to learn the finer details of walkie-talkie-ing.  Over and out!