Butternut Woolens

6:30am this morning:

Boy A: Do people at the South Pole fall off the Earth?

Me drowsily: No, everyone sticks out of the Earth, gravity sucks us toward the center.

Boy A: What's a Black Hole?

Me: Uh, I think it's a spot of infinite gravity.

Boy A: Huh?

Me: If the Black Hole is here and you try to shine a beam of light this way, the Black Hole will suck up the light. It will suck up everything.

Boy A: Why doesn't it suck up the sun?

Me: It would if it were close enough, but the Black Holes are far away in the universe.

Boy A: I thought they were on the sun, there's black holes on the sun.

Me: They may be black spots, but they're not Black Holes.

Boy A: How big is it?

Me: I dunno, planet-sized?

Boy A: What!? That's huge! How do they know it's that big? Did someone drive past it in a spaceship?

Me: No, they have instruments to measure it I guess.

Boy B: Like a ruler?

Me: Well...no, you can't get close to one or you'll get sucked up. They probably use instruments we've never seen.

Boy B: Like a violin?

Me:

Boy A: A flute!

Me: ?

Boy A, shouting: Dinosaurs! No one's seen those! Send a dinosaur in there to measure it and see all the stuff piled in the bottom!

Boy B: Yeah, send in a Nanosaur!

Me even more tired: Don't you guys have some where else to go this morning?