Grandma Jean's Room

By Uncle Hans

It took us a while, but we have finally settled Grandma into her new quarters.  Neil and Kathy helped by bringing some pictures and mementos from her condo to make it more homey..........





..........her church at home helped out by sending a cassette tape of the service each week.  Try to find a cassette player to buy, however.  Like looking for a record player..........





 .........We pulled in the TV from the guest house.  But moving a TV is simple compared to moving a TV signal.  That took some bad language, stringing wire, and replacing the ceiling tiles in the basement..........





...........to watch TV, you need a comfy chair.  While at the second hand store looking for a cassette player, we found this beauty for $20.............





....we also found some puzzles, which Grandmas has conquered, one by one............





..........a couple of her mementos are noteworthy.  These are actual family crests that she crocheted from an ancient catalogue of Swiss family crests that Grandma Rechsteiner had years ago.  On the bottom are the family name, the Swiss crest, and the Canton crest for each family..........






.....We had to buy lots of groceries for Grandma.  Here Annie helps us at the store.  Grandma has enjoyed her time were with us.  Still, she wants to go home to her condo.  She has recovered from her fracture and a bout of nasty flu requiring hospitalization in  late Oct.  Neil and I have successfully wrestled with her ling term insurance company (we think), so she is nearly ready to move back into her condo to see how well that works.  The trial starts on January 8th.  Stay tuned.............




By Uncle Hans

Coyotes

By Uncle Hans

You never know what will appear out the big windows overlooking Cable Lake.  This early morning it was a pair of coyotes.  I think they were looking for the roadrunner.  The pictures were bad, out the window in poor light with a poor camera.........

 

 

 





.....after a while, we let Sam out to investigate.  There was a lot of curiosity, some playing, then Sam ran them off.


By Uncle Hans

Mermaids

By Uncle Hans

I found these two mermaids in my hot tub one recent morning...............






I asked them to do something that mermaids never do..............a snow angel.........





.......I wanted them to do it together as that would make a better blog picture.  but the little one would not do it until the big one did...........





.............I can't believe it, but she laid down in the snow and made a snow angel...........





.........She ran back to the warm water and started talking the little one into trying it.........





.......pretty soon, you know............





...................Monkey see.................





..........Monkey do!


      
 But then my alarm went off, so I got up and went to work......................

By Uncle Hans