Friday December 28, 2007

 

 

A Day of Work and Play

 

Cerwin needed help in the yard – to clean up all the Hickory nuts – and since six grandchildren were here, it seemed like a good time to do that job.

 

The boys did an excellent job of raking and picking up the hundreds of nuts.

 

I gave Diana a scissors to trim some dead flower and tea stems in the flower bed along the road.

 

It looks like the photographer has been spotted!

 

Gloria decided to use the dump truck to pick up sticks, leaves, and nuts. 

 

Josh and Nathan batted nuts with rakes while waiting for the wheelbarrow to return.

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The late afternoon was set aside for relaxation.

 

Gloria stitching a small plastic canvas block.

 

Diana, Jenna, and Gloria playing a Nintendo game.  (The boys had moved it to the room attached to the garage – where they slept on air mattresses for the last three nights.)

 

Jordan on my laptop – checking to see how the market did today.  He is a junior in high school and especially enjoys studying about the stock market, mutual funds, etc.  It’s fun listening to him talking to grandpa about his newfound knowledge.

 

Jenna and Josh enjoying a video and snack.

 

Diana getting a cup with a lid – she knows that is what I prefer when she is taking a drink to the children’s room. 

 

Gloria doing the same thing.

 

Jordan microwaved a few cheese sticks for his late afternoon snack.  Teenage boys are always looking for food!

Their parents came for them between 4:30 and 5:30 this evening – now the house is strangely quiet again.