Visitors

You'll have to excuse me for a few days.

Because of the volcanic ash from Iceland, European flights have been cancelled, so my daughter and family aren't heading out for a little while. They made it from San Francisco to Philly. But tonight instead of flying to Ireland, they are driving down here to see me for five days!

No doubt there will be stories and pictures after that. I intend to enjoy myself very much.

Family Visit

Hello again.

Kitty Mike and Isaac have winged their way back to California. Ruth has driven back to New York. She left on Sunday evening, heading into fog that thickened as she headed up the Parkway, turning into rain, and then hail with thunder and lightning as she reached New York.

But before she left, we did manage to get in a little nerf baseball.


The house is empty once again. I do enjoy the quiet, but miss the happy confusion and overflow of people in the little rooms.




Do you know what your computer tower looks like on the inside? It looks something like this. Mike investigated mine, vacuumed it out (It was pretty dusty in there), and found that one of the fans wasn't working. He did some more mysterious things to it, and it is now working faster and better than before.


He also spent some time helping Isaac to build towers around the castle. The castle once belonged to his mother when she was about Isaac's age. It is the big attraction at Grandmom's house. Everybody gets a chance to play with Isaac and the castle. It has hiding places and a trap door. And lately we seem to find all kinds of things in it like automobiles and air planes and dinosaurs.




Isaac kept us entertained, as he always does, with his wonderful imagination. He told us stories of his activities and accomplishments and his friends. Here he is describing to his mother and Lisa how he saw a truck get stuck on a sand hill and had to be pulled out.




We had some rain while they were here,but the temperature was warm, and we did get sunny days too. We started a new garden. Isaac planted some wild flower seeds (perhaps a bit prematurely) The next day, unbeknownst to those of us who might have stopped him - or not - he decided to dig a hole. He kept digging until he could sit in it up to his neck, watching the worms trying to crawl back down. When they would near the bottom of the dirt pile, he would lift them back to the top.



We went to Uncle Joe's house on Sunday. Isaac got the grand tour of Joe's workshop - a wonderful place full of pieces of wood, and big saws and other equipment.


The three of them took a trip to the zoo on Monday. It was cold and very windy, so Grandmom stayed home. They spent a good bit of time in the aviary and in the reptile house, where it was warm.


On Tuesday, temps were up again and we went to the beach (to dig some more).
Isaac found an oyster shell for me. And then they were off to the airport. I do miss them already. I know I take too many pictures while they're here, but that's what I have and enjoy when they go back home.



Mike took this one before they left.