Gi: Did you know you can make pinecone jam?

Me: Oh, really? How do you do that?

Gi: First, you collect the pinecones when they’re ripe. When they’re still green. In the early spring. I think.

Me: That’s not ripe. That’s pre-ripe. But OK.

Gi: And then, you do whatever you do to it to make jam. I don’t know how to make jam.

Gi: Did I say right? I meant left.

Me: Oh, yeah. You and Dad. Getting your right and your left mixed up.

Gi: See, I got the worst of both worlds. Like you, I can’t tell which way north, south, east, and west are. And I don’t know my right from my left.