Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Freeze-Frame: Lumberjack

Tadhg has a handful of shows he's allowed to watch on occasion. Animal shows are almost without exception too scary, but he has a deep affinity for an old British show with five installments on YouTube   (Here Comes a Tractor and Here Comes a Digger being the big winners there) and another show with a paltry number of episodes called Tractor Ted. Both are really educational for a wee man who loves machines. His Favorite of All Favorites is called "Tractor Ted: Timber Machines." It features down-to-earth farmers doing exciting things on the land with thrilling machines.

Anyway, he has clearly been inspired by his foray into Youtube.

He came downstairs this morning, ready to get bundled up to go outside with me. In his hand was a nondescript metal tool he had found, probably some sort of bike tool. As we descended the stairs together,  he proclaimed, "Cut down trees. Make fence posts."

And with a bit of imagination, that's just what he did.

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  1. Also, wow... his vocabulary is getting really good!

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    1. Yep! And since I'm replying to you (ahem...) NINE MONTHS LATER his vocabulary has expanded like crazy. The latest one that impressed me was his talk of harbors and ferries.

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