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"Grampa! Grampa! Don't go, Grampa!" Kalib screams. "Take me back home with you!" Actually, he does not call me "Grampa." He calls me, "Gabba." "Don't go" and "take me back home with you" are phrases I have yet to hear him speak.
He was just upset because something didn't go quite right, in his mind - and he was tired. He had missed his nap and would not sleep for many hours yet to come.
This is from last night, as he moved into his new house.
As I mentioned, I took a great many pictures last night and I know that there are a number of people who love Kalib and who come here just to see him, so, what I have decided to do, is spread those pictures out in a series over the next four or five days, so that those who love Kalib will have a reason to visit.
After that, maybe I can see him again, shoot a bunch more pictures and have a new series for next week.
Yet, I will also run something current from each new day.
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So here I pick up right where I left off last night - with Lavina vacuuming the rug as Kalib stands by, a little perplexed.
The man they bought the house from was a heavy smoker. Lavina and Jacob had already taken steps to deodorize the place, but they are not done yet. Lavina does not like the rug at all and plans to soon replace it.
The next step will be to paint the walls and this will create fumes that may drive Lavina and Kalib out of the house for awhile, so they may be back here tomorrow night.
I'm not sure.
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Lavina is not one to leave Kalib standing forlorn and crying, so she stands up the vacuum and heads toward him.
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Kalib rushes into her arms.
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Mother and son sit on the couch as grandma takes over the vacuum. She tries to vacuum up Lavina's feet, which makes Kalib feel a little better.
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Then Auntie Lisa comes along and tosses a big ball into the air. That makes Kalib feel better, too.
In part 3 of this series, we will see some of the other exciting ways Lisa was able to use this ball to amuse her little nephew, Kalib.
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I spent today alone, except for a short time this morning. After breakfast, Margie headed into town to help Lavina out around the new house. She plans to spend the night and help tomorrow, too. Given the fact that she is still limping about and is a bit fragile, what she can do to help is limited, but she loves to hang out with Kalib and that will help quite a bit.
I have been extremely lethargic all day long. I always go through this in the winter, when daylight is dim and short.
I should have taken a long walk, but I took only a short one. I left the house at 3:30 PM with my pocket camera and came back at 4:03.
I hadn't walked far before these two scooted past on a snowmachine. I had to turn around to take the picture, because I was walking in the opposite direction, away from the road they followed.
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As you can see, I have progressed further, but see that man down the road? That's the same fellow clad in the blue jacket in the previous picture. He has not made much progress at all.
What a slow poke!
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This must be what they call, "dusk."
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A car comes up Tamar. Actually, it's a truck - a pickup truck, but "a pickup truck comes up Tamar" has no rhyme.
That's the Chugach Mountains in the background.
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Russian immigrant children play on a fourwheeler.
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A man named Buck drives his snowmachine home to his wife, his dog, his cat and the kids. Tequila is the dog. Some of you will remember her.
The first time that I met her, I put the word, "pitbull" in my title and I got a huge number of hits above the average, because readers thought I meant Sarah Palin, of course.
If I were to write about Sarah Palin every day, I could have a huge number of readers, but I refuse to do it.
Some of you - admit it, now - you came here today just because I said in the title that I refuse to write about Sarah Palin. You saw that and you wondered what I would write about her.
Some could argue that, by writing her name, I just wrote about her, but I disagree.
I merely set a lure, to see how many might bite.
I won't do it everyday, either.
Yet, I bet if I did, some of you would come, every single day - even though I fooled you the day before. You would see the name, "Sarah Palin," and you just could not stop yourselves.
You would come.
Yes, you would.