I was working from TeleCublandia and somebody yelled at me from outside. It was the GG. He made a particular gesture that means (in our household) “Make me a drink!” Meaning a Manhattan. I couldn’t describe the gesture if I tried. I don’t even think I could replicate it. My brother did get it🤣

Except I somehow misinterpreted the gesture. He was actually alerting me to the fact that he had the snowblower running and thought I might want to take a picture. I did take a pic because that’s what I do and then I made him a freezer ‘hattan. Which he appreciated. BTW, a freezer ‘hattan is when I put the ingredients into a glass and stick it into the freezer and he retrieves it when he’s ready and puts ice and cherries in it to taste.

So when he came in, after he retrieved his freezer ‘hattan, he began enumerating the small engines we own. Um, let’s see… Lawnmower, snowblower, leaf blower, I’m probably forgetting some and I’m not even counting bote motors because we don’t use them here. But then. Three chainsaws. WAIT! THREE chainsaws? Whut? We have THREE chainsaws.

There’s the first one we owned (I think) that I bought for him from Sears at Briarwood Mall umpteen bazillion years ago because he asked for it for xmas. He probably doesn’t remember that I’m the one who bought it. I wouldn’t have been ABLE to do it if he hadn’t provided me with the exact model number. And then there’s one The Gumper (his dad) left behind. The GG seems to be the only sibling who can start it? And a third one is on long-term loan from a moominbeach neighbor-cousin. And oh there’s a fourth one in the moomingarage that my parents or brother bought There are probably one or two or four in the garage at Hoton Lake but I dunno.

BTW: Sears at Briarwood has been demolished and is being replaced by an amalgam of apartments/condos/whatever and shop(pes). I think.

I have mixed feelings about this. I know we need “affordable” housing on The Planet Ann Arbor but I’m not sure this will end up being “affordable” and I KNOW I would not want to live on the Briarwood Mall footprint. I mean, it’s a big frickin’ parking lot! On the other hand, I admit that I do not know what it will end up looking like. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised?

There was a time when I LOVED Briarwood Mall and shopped there a LOT. As a baby, Lizard Breath practiced walking there and although she wasn’t quiiiite in the “Mom drive me to mall crowd” as a tween, I remember “Papa” next door driving Liz and his twin grandchildren over there to “hang out” (that’s my phrase, not the kids’). I miss Papa and I hope they had fun.

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