Three Gentlemen and One More On the Way

 

Hi Mr. Snowman.  You better look out. 

Things show up and then they just disappear.

After Halloween, Gramma's spider and witches disappeared.

If you find Santa, let me know. 

I'm still looking for him and the Christmas tree.

 

 

 

Nolan loves the compressor. 

He asks to play with it often.

He's into blowing things up.

 

 

Everyone should learn to blow their own horn.

 

 

 

 

Nolan has Grampa's remotes.

This is a sure sign Grampa is somewhere else.

 

 

Nolan misses his grocery cart when he's in the pantry.

It's like a mini grocery store.

But he doesn't have to pay.

He just uses Gramma's credit card.

 

 

 

Gramma thought Nolan would like to play with beads.

But he only wants to play with orange beads.

 

 

Grampa is being silly and putting Nolan's legs into his coat sleeves.

Nolan plays along and puts his sillies on.

 

 

Grampa was trying to fix the dryer, or determine if we needed a new one.

It was making a funny noise that sounded like the motor must be going.

He removed the back of the dryer and tipped it over,

only to discover he had also loosened the drum.

THEN he came and asked me for help. 

It's not easy to lift the drum of the dryer and put it where you want it.

The inside of the dryer keeps turning.

After I explained how to fix the problem, I was told he would do it himself.

I retreated to my piano practice, until I heard yelling from the laundry room.

Thinking he was likely bleeding or under the dryer I went to check on him.

He said he thought he had fixed the problem. 

He showed me what was causing it.

 

Can you count the mice tails?

Their coats are now extra dry.

And the dryer is working well.

 

 

We checked outside where the dryer vent is.

There was another dead mouse outside.

I guess he was the mouse that boosted the others up to the vent.

 

Besides fixing dryers, Grampa repairs Nolan's favorite book,

The Night Before Christmas.  This had been our children's book.

Some of the tabs and wheels were no longer functioning.

Nolan tried every time Grampa read it to him, to see if they would work.

Grampa repaired the book by taking it completely apart and rebuilding it. 

I don't know how much a new book would have cost,

but it probably wouldn't last as long as this one will.

Now it will last until our great grandchildren can enjoy it.

 

 

California Gentlemen

 



 

 

 

The gentlemen enjoy their time together. 

Andrew and Nathan seem to look after Nolan.

Nolan understands that they are to be looked up to.

For some reason he would try to sit on them.

With the cousins, it's a guy thing.

I may never understand.

 

 

Mousie Finds a Cookie

by Gramma

 

Mousie was out playing in the snow at Gramma's house.  He ran to the wall of the house with his pals.  Mousie can run fast.  The wall felt hot and Mousie was cold.  Mousie and his pals looked up and saw a way into the house.  They jumped and jumped to get in the vent that led into the house.  Mousie can jump so far.  They ran into a hole.  It was hot in the hole.  At the end of the hole, they saw Grampa.  He had cookies.  They could smell them.

 



 

Grampa makes the best cookies.  Mousie and his pals wanted Grampa's cookies.  They wanted to stay with Grampa and eat his cookies.  They wanted a glass of milk to go with the cookie.  Then they took a nap.