Fun with a Visitor

Our Cousin, once removed, or is it twice?, Comes to Visit

This is our Gram'pa "helping" our cousin into his Mini at the airport.

We gathered a pile of fun items and covered the table with them. 

 As if by magic Penguin is surrounded by Creatures,

Do you know what they are? -Penguin

Maybe these little weird creatures can have fun with us on Halloween.

A Water Game at the Pool Reported by Penguin at poolside

From the pool side Fox, Racoon, and myself, watched the human kids play a game called Monkey in the Middle. The person in the middle was supposed to catch the rubber duck as it flew over the pool. We puppets did not think it would be fun for us to play as we happen to enjoy flying only with some sort of safety device... like maybe a plane or at least a parachute. So we opted to watch.

See the duckie flying high in the sky

Here duckie is surrounded with a small box and highlighted bigger in the box beside it so you can see his spectacular water spraying loops. These duckies were aerial artists! 

Our friend Cassidy was here today and was one of the three necessary for this game to work. A kid on each side throws the duck back and forth. If the kid in the middle catches duckie then the pitcher goes to the middle. The game actually goes very fast because the duck reaches the height you see in the sky then does a nose dive. The camera, well the photographer ( the kids G'ma), was not fast enough to digitally catch the plummeting fowl. 

Eric is ready for the catch, Emily is in the middle, and Cassidy has the duck.

Here is Cassidy again making a great effort to catch UFO ducky.

This duckie was coming in for a landing and the kids were really after it.

We puppets were glad we sat the game out. We would have been soggy and probably sinking to the bottom of the pool. We also enjoyed our friends the duckies doing their daring part in the game. Here is a tribute image to Flipping Duckie.

White Mouse Experiment

White mouse bravely risks his life for science and mad scientist Eric.

Can a mouse ride a train pulled by Thomas the Tank Engine around a track?

Here is Mouse's track.

One half track later Mouse bombed !

Oh Oh Ouch Ouch AND I nearly lost my tail !

Follow the pictures from bottom to top to see his steadfast success. What a brave mouse.

Here is Mouse very proud of himself for proving that a puppet mouse can stay on if his posterior is wedged firmly in between a car and that little motorized train.

 Naturally other puppets wanted to ride now that White Mouse proved the ride is possible.