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Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
 
Today Phoebe and I had to go to the post office to mail a package. We decided to walk because as Raymond knows everything in Yarrow is only a half a block away. We were skipping down the sidewalk trying our very best not to get blown away by the VERY STRONG wind!!! As we passed the deli (we were stopping for a treat on the way back) Phoebe noticed they had put up the Christmas decorations on the telephone poles. THAT was a very exciting thing!

The Christmas decorations sparked a conversation about our favorite things about Christmas. I mentioned that the TURKEY dinner was high on my list. Phoebe looked at me incredulously and exclaimed that TURKEY dinner only happened in fall. (We just celebrated our Canadian thanksgiving a few weeks back.) No matter how hard I tried to convince Phoebe it was true she was even surer I was just teasing her. We decided to let the lady in the post office settle it. And luckily the post office lady agreed with grampa! Phoebe asked her momma and grandma when we got back just to be sure.

Once we were back to the shop with the treat from the deli it was time to work on Phoebe's Christmas present - a new bed for her room. Phoebe thinks we are building a new hay rack for the horses and she eagerly helped where she could. Her 'new' bed is actually an old cut down version from IKEA. The bed had been stored in the basement for years - unassembled of course. The directions were long gone - although thankfully all the pieces were there. With Phoebe direction the bed went together in only a couple of tries.

As we neared completion Phoebe was eager to try out the ladder and under close supervision I let her at it. The bed is now only three foot six off the ground but to an almost five year old it was like a half a block in Yarrow... HIGH!!!

Once she was comfortable with the altitude I snapped this picture... I was laying flat on the floor and using a wide angle lens... making it seem as high in the photo as it felt to Phoebe.
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We are flying HIGH in Yarrow...

-grampa dan
 
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
 
With your permission Dan!

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Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
 
Hey, that's my perspective on everything.

Phoebe is getting older. What a difference a year makes. She is a famous young lady. I wonder if she knows how well she is known around the country?

Half a block? I remember asking Dan about where the post office was - oh, about half a block. Sure. I finally drove down to mail my letter.

Things are big in Texas, but in Yarrow the blocks are REALLY big. The next time I have to walk the half block to Donna's house from Dan's I'm going to pack a lunch.

[ November 17, 2009, 09:32 AM: Message edited by: Raymond Chapman ]
 
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
 
That youngster has it all, I can see, and a Grandpa that loves her to pieces. How many kids get to live in an environment as fun and unique as that?

What I enjoyed most out of that story was the fact that, even at five, she knew that Gramps might be pulling her leg with the turkey story. Live by the tease, die by the tease, right, Dan?
 
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
 
Boy what a bed and bedroom. Although she is the first kid that I ever saw have a block and tackle in her ceiling. Way too cute. Where does the time go. It seems like just yesterday she was 2.
 
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
 
Dan, there's a bolt missing up there at the top.
 
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
 
And there's a screw loose on the floor. [Cool]
 
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
 
And there will be "stitters" everywhere.
 
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
 
I put in the last bolt after the photograph... nothing I can do 'bout the loose screw or the 'stitters'.

Life is good in Yarrow...

-grampa dan
 
Posted by Bec Bermudez (Member # 8219) on :
 
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Posted by Michael Clanton (Member # 2419) on :
 
Well- personally, I am really disappointed in the whole project! I was expecting to see a 'one of a kind" magical bed, with all kinds of "Dan" special touches!- and all it is- is a bunch of plain 'ol lumber- STORE BOUGHT,PREFAB, LUMBER! I hope Phoebe isn't too disappointed when she finds out it is not just a hayrack!

Just kidding!- I love the photos from Bec! They grow up way too fast!
 
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
 
Dan, Samantha had a bed just like that! Now you have to make sure you put LOTS of those glow in the dark stars on the ceiling so she can fall asleep in the stars. :-)
 
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
 
hmmmm... glow in the dark stitters.
 
Posted by Bec Bermudez (Member # 8219) on :
 
LOL Michael - This is just a project to get her into a new bed and make space in her room. Her daddy is reserving the right to theme the next incarnation of her room, so Grampa has to keep his hands off in that respect! She'll be getting a revamp to her room once the REST of the house is finished! I still don't have a bathroom sink! LOL [Smile]

Here is her daddy's website... http://www.stonetreestudios.com - as you can see... it's all relative!

(Hmmmm... the site is down. Time to yell at the host. Grrrr.)

[ November 18, 2009, 02:01 PM: Message edited by: Bec Bermudez ]
 


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