12/22-24/03 Andrew (my 9-year-old grandson) and I went up to the property for 3 days: Monday through Wednesday.

Here is Andrew's account of the three days in his own words:

Me and my grandpa stopped by Marilyn's house she wasn't home. My grandpa and I arrived at 1:30pm. Mike already had the driveway cleared by the time we got to the log cabin so didn't have to do any work. Grandpa lost a can of milk but I found the milk. My grandpa and I had a big snowball fight but I won the snowball fight. Me and my grandpa decided go sledding. We built a jump. I went off the jump a couple times and then we decided to do some work so we climbed some scaffolds but I got to scared and climbed back down. Me and my grandpa were about to go in for dinner but my grandpa heard a owl. After awhile I saw the owl and we got the flashlight and the binoculars. We saw a mosquito and killed him. We played Chess, Scribbage, drawing, also lost the origami. We both had stomach aches but they went away.

The next day, Tuesday, I slept in. We had eggs for breakfast. We varnished the wall above the windows. I finally went on the scaffolds after three tries. But I only varnished one log. My grandpa dropped his glasses but found them and they weren't damaged. [Note: the glasses were dropped from the high scaffold near the ridgepole and they fell through the stairwell all the way to the ground - Paul]

Then the gray jays came around and me and my grandpa fed the gray jays peanuts but there was one gray jay that gripped my hand really tight so we named him Ken Grippy Jr. and we took pictures of me feeding the birds. I thought I saw an owl but it was a dead tree. Then we had a big snowball fight. I won again. I climbed up on the roof and got stuck up side down and grandpa had to save me. I slid on my back on the jump. Then we walked over to Mike's house to see Bert and Ernie but they weren't home. On the way back from Mike's house thought we heard some coyotes but it was just a owl. After dinner we played Chess, hangman, and 20 questions.

Wednesday

I slept in until 9:00am. I had pop tarts for breakfast grandpa had oatmeal. We packed up and headed home by 10:00am.