Christmas gifts

Our local Grocery store at Christmas offered toys. One year they had a large cannon toy. Our youngest son, Scott, fell in love with it. When we first moved to Kansas City we lived in a three bedroom house. There was no dining room. The dining room was at the end of the living room. It was a nice big room but it meant we ate in the living room. That Christmas Scott got his cannon. It shot plastic balls a few feet. On Christmas morning we were seated at the dining table eating breakfast with Ray's parents. Scott wanted to shoot that cannon. Steve showed him how. He shot off the first ball and it sailed across the room and ended in his grandfather's oatmeal.