A Visit from Miss V

We enjoyed a visit from our great-niece, Violet, at the beginning of the week.

She's been visiting us for sleepovers for several years, and we always  love it when she arrives.

She's almost ten now, so I suppose she'll soon enter the stage where she'd rather spend time with her friends than with her great aunt and great uncle.

Violet and I spent one morning in the Old Port section of Portland. We had fun browsing in the shops, checking out the waterfront, and eating lunch at Elevation Burger. We had every intention of following up our lunch with ice cream cones, but alas, we were too full.

At one of the shops in the Old Port we found a skirt that Violet loved, so it was soon on its way home with her. First, though, she decided to test its "twirl-ability" while we checked out the craft supplies and yarns at Michael's. The skirt passed the twirl-ability test.

Here Violet is explaining to me which yarns are her favorite colors. She's moved from the Purple and Pink Stage to the Teal Blue Stage, as you might have guessed.

Ken took Violet for a drive around our back yard in the Model T.

Violet was impressed when I explained to her that her Uncle Ken had built this car. He spent years, decades actually, collecting parts for the car, and after he retired, he finally had the time to put the auto together.

(I asked Ken where he got the fenders for the "T." He said he made them in a sheet metal class at So. Maine Voc Tech Institute, which is now Southern Maine Community College.)

It's always rather sad to part with Violet, but she has assured us she'll be back before long.