Grams

Jun 4, 2010

WE’RE A SWINGIN’ GROUP

I made a new toy this week. I don’t know who has more fun with my toys… The kids playing on them or me watching them.

Take an ordinary tire…

Paint it red…

Add some hardware and chain…

Then get a little creative…

And hang it from the tree house…

Add a kid…

Or two…

And just have fun…

I think they like it.

Jun 3, 2010

NO CHILD LABOR LAWS HERE

When you wear out one set of grandkids…..

You move on to the next…
A couple of years ago when this happened…

I salvaged some bricks…

Then I had these great-nephews…

Help me clean them off and we did this with them…

Kind of crooked and funky but it served its purpose for a while.
This year I finally got around to doing what I wanted with them so…
It was brick moving day at Grams…

We are so strong…

There sure are a lot of bricks…

Lets have a meeting a figure out the best way to do this…

I think we should make the boys do it and we will just look cute…

Ahh… Break time…

Let’s make Uncle Zac help too…

See what we did…
A nice little spot for Grams favorite chair..

A spot it front of the “Grammy Swing”…

Where the old pathway was…

Lots of hard work. Time for another break…

It was a good day.

May 30, 2010

A “TIRE”ing ACHIEVEMENT

For years I’ve wanted to make a planter out of an old tire….

So I gathered my helper Zac…

Just a warning to all you grown children. If you plan on moving back into your parents basement when times get tough, don’t think it will be an easy ride. We will put you to work!

I drew scallops on the tires with chalk and we (Zac) cut them out.

Then I took them down to the local tire store and had them remove the unwanted piece. Next I got the neighbor boy who is strong beyond belief to turn them inside out. (Sorry I forgot to take pictures of this process because it was really funny and I was too busy standing on the rim and being jostled around and laughing to be able to take pictures anyway).
Once they are inside out, I started painting…

I used spray paint on the rims and exterior paint I had laying around for the tire…

I painted the “petals” with the opposite colors of each other’s base…

When they were dry, I moved them out front and filled them with dirt…

And plants….

I think they turned out pretty good.

May 22, 2010

“GWAMS” DUTY PART TWO

These guys are a set…

This one’s big brothers…

Mom is still recovering so it was Fischer’s turn to help me for the day…

I was tired of my bathroom looking like this…

Not really, but I was tired of my old toilet not flushing properly and the inards broke so it was time to take serious action…

He has the official “Plumbers Crack”…

YUCK!

“It’s too heavy Gwams”

Nice new toilet…

“Doesn’t work anymore”…

What should we do with it now?…

Maybe this?…..

That was a lot of work, we need to take a break and soak our sore muscles…

Something’s down there….

I’ll go get it…

Found it…

Time to jump…

And slide…

And be “King of the Castle”…

Next project…
The kids love to get on top of the old shed and being the good Grams that I am, I thought I would help them out a little. So, we got our tools…