It’s Not a “Toomah”

The last mention I made of Kindergarten Cop started me thinking about “Ah-nold” telling the squeaker, “It’s not a tooma,” when the little boy suggests Arnold’s headache may be a tumor.

We decided, when we moved to Colfax, that we would walk down the driveway to get the mail. We would not stop in the car on the way in or out and we would not drive down just to get the mail. So, we have walked up and down the driveway quite a bit in the past eight months. One day our friend David was walking with me and he noticed an odd growth in one of the pines. At first we thought it was some kind of a nest. Closer inspection showed it would have to be a condor’s nest as it is about five feet across.

The picture does not show it well, but it is green and quite massive. Oak trees occasionally get a lumpy growth that I have heard called galls. I don’t know if pine trees can get galls. Or, maybe, its a “tooma”.

I suppose if our former governator were to see it he could say, “It’s not a tooma.” The whole situation galls me.