The story of the oars

When teenybuffalo was over the other day, she noticed these oars in our living room. "Why do you have oars next to your couch?" she asked.

Talk about a missed story opportunity! (There should be a term for this like esprit de l'escalier, a term for recognizing the perfect set-up for a story after the opportunity to tell it has passed.) I reflected on this out loud to the healing angel (we are just the two of us right now, as wakanomori has joined Little Springtime and the ninja girl in Japan....