THE PIRATE SHIP

AHHHH, SUMMER DAYS.  SUMMER DAZE.  A TIME FOR SIMPLE DREAMS AND IMAGINATION PLAY. 

OUR GRANDSONS HAVE AN AMAZING ‘PAPA’.  YESTERDAY MORNING WE SAT IN THE WONDERFUL SHADE OF OUR FRONT PORCH AND MADE UP A ‘TRAVELLING” STORY WITH OUR SMALL BOYS. EACH ONE OF US TOOK TURNS TO ADD A COUPLE MORE SENTENCES TO THE GROWING TALE . LOTS OF GIGGLES AND SILLINESS ENSUED AND THIS ACCOMPANIED BY OCCASIONAL DRUMMING FROM THE BOYS’ NEW INSTRUMENTS CREATED BY THEIR PAPA OUT OF PLASTIC CONTAINERS AND PENCILS. 

AFTER THIS ,PAPA SAID THAT HE HAD A PROJECT TO WORK ON WITH OTTO AND MARCEL AND IT MIGHT TAKE THE REST OF THE MORNING.  I SETTLED IN TO READ THE PAPER AND ENJOY SOME QUIET TIME. (SECRETLY, I IMAGINED THAT THEY MIGHT BE MAKING A KITE AS TERRY HAD MENTIONED THIS TO ME AS A POSSIBLE CRAFT IDEA.)

NEVER COULD I HAVE GUESSED THAT HE WAS DRILLING AND SAWING AND GLUEING AND PAINTING AND BOLTING TOGETHER A PIRATE SHIP !  IT IS AMAZING AS YOU CAN SEE!

WE DO HAVE QUITE A FEW ART /CRAFT/BUILDING SUPPLIES AT OUR HOME BECAUSE OR OUR BACKGROUNDS .(TERRY GREW UP BUILDING HOUSES WITH HIS DAD AND BROTHER AND OF COURSE WE ARE BOTH VISUAL ARTISTS WITH A STUDIO IN OUR HOME.)

SO TO THE DELIGHT OF TWO SMALL BOYS THEY WERE ASKED TO ‘HELP’ PAPA BUILD A ‘BOY SIZE’ SHIP COMPLETE WITH PIRATE FLAG, HELM, AND ANCHOR.  THEY WERE ALL  ALMOST VIBRATING WITH EXCITEMENT BY THE TIME I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS PROJECT AND THAT INCLUDES PAPA!

DESPITE THE PANDEMIC THIS WILL BE A SUMMER FOR ALL OF US TO REMEMBER …FOR THE GOOD THINGS TOO….. LIKE BEING TOGETHER , CREATING JOY, AND LASTING MEMORIES. 

WELL DONE AGAIN, ‘PAPA’.