The Magic of Michael

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The week following

Christmas

our three year old grandson

Michael

came for his first true

solo visit...

to

Papa & Gamma'a house...

Our week was filled with fun!

We played and played.

And when in need of a brief rest

Michael would sit in his recliner nestled

between Papa and Gamma's

larger ones.

His Aunt Carrie

had given him a most handsome

dragon puppet for Christmas,

along with a Puff the Magic Dragon

book and musical cd...

His dragon frolicked with him around the house,

and each night after his* bath and reading

his bedtime story..

*( Michael was not the only one that got VERY wet!)

off they would go to the room across

from ours

as each night he would announce

it to be

"Michael's room!"

There amongst all the wiggles and giggles

Peter, Paul and Mary

crooned to the soft rhythmic guitar strumming

about Puff and little Jackie Paper

frolicking in the autumn mist

in the land of Honalee.

While at the house

durring the day

Michael stayed extremely busy...

Three train tracks filled the house..

Thomas and his wooden track

covered the den floor,

Santa's train encircled the Christmas tree

and in the dinning room

the extra leaves were removed from the table

to make room for the electric train...


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Our week with Michael flew by

way to fast and then the next thing you knew

it was time for him

to return home to his Mommy and Baba...

Papa and I sat back in our recliners..

put up our feet and sighed..

now for some rest..

and yet,

as I sit and close my eyes

a smile will creep across my face

and I will find my toes tapping to

Peter , Paul and Mary as they sing

"Puff the magic draron lived by the sea..."

in the far recesses of my mind...

and

looking forward to our next visit from Michael!

Let's get back to blogging...

It's been quite awhile since

I was able to post anything new

(with pictures)

to this blog...

turns out the old computer

,all of at least four years...

(how ancient!)

was SO full it would not hold another thought

or picture...

Therefore , Michael brought home this "new" one

and said..

"now..that one should last awhile..."

it has four or five times the memory

of the old one...

(I forget the word so I say a memory the size of a triceratops..

the word starts with a "t")

I continued to wait to post to the blog ..

due to the fact that

1/2 of my Christmas pictures

are being downloaded from the "old"

computer to a new "triceratops" backup hard drive...

but, alas it is taking so long I am afraid

that the "Chuck" at the Greenville Best Buy

must have more important "undercover spy" work

to take care of than my computer order...

So with what pictures I do have at this point..

let's get back to blogging!

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Today , first off

I would like to share an educational slide with you...

This first slide shows you how to

put on your socks and shoes,

each and every morning ..

with a lot of help..

Thibodeaux is "always" a BIG help.

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And a second slide,

just to share our Christmas morning..

We were so fortunate that Carrie

got to spend Christmas with us this year!!

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Happy Birthday to all our January celebrants!

(Sorry, your pictures remain at Best Buy!)

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next time will be Michael Hall,

a week at Papa & Gamma's house..

Love to all! D.

If the thermometer had been an inch longer...

Today I find myself still,

unable at this time to use pictures

from "my" computer

to upload to this blog...

yet, beginning to feeling the "itch" to post something...

I began to wonder if..

I could somehow do re-runs...

...hmmmm...

So with the cold spell that has

"plagued" us this last couple of weeks

I wanted to remember and appreciate the

wondrous warmth of the south,

so I am going back one year

and visiting

New Hampshire in the

second week of January 2009...

and you know what..

I already feel warmer!!!

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(so let's see if this works..)

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Cold!

If the thermometer had been an inch longer

we'd all have frozen to death.-

quoted in Mark Twain and I

This morning started out at a balmy

-8

the local weatherman

claims the next 2 nights are to be

-10 & -12

This past Sunday night

Michael grilled our supper...

Monday we awoke to more snow.

Now we are experiencing

an Alberta Clipper...

I hear that as far south as home,

people are also

feeling it ..

I am not sure how to show


"Cold"






Monday,

an icicle hangs outside

my craft room

window

Thursday..

it's still there.

On the brighter side..

at least

the job was not further north

in NH..

-35 in Berlin.

And the
Mosquito Index
is low.

Michael is coming down with
a cold..


I foresee a week-end

under his fleece throw by the fireplace.


Shut the door.

Not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the cozyness.

- Mark Twain's Notebook


Y'all stay warm!