Ann and Jake were on their way to the store yesterday morning, when they looked out the front window, and being blown around was Heather and Andrew. They came by to visit and Heather was going to help Paul put tin on their goat barn, so Andrew stayed with us and played with Jake a lot. He ate a lot of chicken "legs" for lunch and crawled up on the sofa and took a big long nap. His mom brought by his "train tapes" that we got him for Christmas so we could watch them... 100 years of Lionel Trains... what a deal, the only toy company in America that survived for 100 years!! Sure brought back lots of memories!! My cousin Larry Moffat had one and I always thought how cool he was, cuz he had one!! It was really neat. I can still hear the whistle and smell the smoke pellets that one put in the stack of the engine to make smoke and I can remember just laying on the floor and watching it go round and round. That was really neat to this ole farm boy who had few toys at home!! It really was neat then to go with Dad and Mom to the Train station in El Reno and put the cream cans on the train to go to Enid, and pick up the empty cans and take home. I can still remember how big the trains were, how they smelled, the engineers out on the walk by the trains with their huge oil cans with long spouts, the conductor's cry when it was time for the passengers to board, the big tall wagon we put the cans on so the guys could pull them along side the train cars and roll them onto the train. And I can still see the Santa Fe slick diesel passenger trains too... Goodness what a deal!!
Anyway, Andrew brought along his two new trains, and he played and played. He also brought his new video game, and Jake played and played it!! haha.. my boys.. got to love them!!!
All for now. Gonna have a Bday party for Ann this evening and expecting our home to start filling after lunch with company... how cool... I have the best family in the world!!!
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