GRANDKIDS PART 2?

I spent another Thursday with my grandchildren. With school looming in the future I really have one week left with the final week playing golf here in the morning with a middle school football game at 5 and the rabbit show at the fair after that. They start back to school right after Labor Day. I think we were all tired on Thursday. We did not accomplish much. We wrapped up a few details on our projects. We still have England to pursue (although we did learn about William the Conquer's Doomsday book in 1086). The most laughs were when my grandson asked if I wanted to sword fight. We have not done this for years. The swords are not nerf but plastic and large. I won the first contest by knocking the sword out of his hand. I won the battle with my granddaughter and then they had a match to see who would meet me in the championship. So my grandson and I paired off again and he won. I got to laughing so hard I could not even swing the sword. It was great fun. I will be down there again this week. I missed going down about 3 weeks in July - one week they were on vacation and 2 weeks I was not able to go down due to an outpatient medical procedure. However they came up twice for a total of about 7 days. So all in all I was able to spend some quality time with them.

GRANDKIDS

It has been a few weeks since I last posted. The grandchildren visited last weekend while their parents were on a get-a-way with friends in the Hocking Hills area. Friday was rainy so we shopped for a few school clothes in the AM> and went to the driving range in the afternoon. Saturday I was at the zoo with them. They had picked an animal to learn about and my granddaughter had picked toads and my grandson had picked the silverback gorilla. We saw the wallabies and then headed over to view the apes and gorillas. We then went to the zoo's museum and saw a small display for the Australian Great Barrier Reef and found an amphibian exhibit with frogs and toads and other truly obnoxious bugs (the cockroach exhibit was particullary distubing). Since we had been to the zoo in July we just spent 1 1/2 hours there and came home. We then played golf in the late afternoon. Sunday we went to the pool for awhile and then played golf again. The evenings were spent playing board games - Clue and Aggravation. They did not even bring their electronic devices. It was a very cool 3 days - they are such fun to be with. I was very impressed that they actually did their research on their animals and their presidents. We still have a few more things to learn this summer. We have President Martin Van Buren left, England and Java. We have learned some things about Hawaii, Texas, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, William Henry Harrison and Andrew Jackson (does anyone remember Johnny Horton's song "The Battle of New Orleans"?). We picked these presidents cause they were included in a set of Pez Dispensers.