With Crampaw

Now that I live in California, I get to do a lot more things with my grandpa (but we call him "Crampaw"). 

With Crampaw, I get to:

1) Play games with him (Hungry Hungry Hippos is the only one we like to play really)
2) Go with him to church a lot of times to help with him fix things.  One time we fixed a box for a speaker and the other time we moved the organ to a storage room.  And we go and pick oranges.
3) Play in the backyard like baseball and light-saber fighting.

But my favorite thing to do with Crampaw is woodworking.  I call it Creative Woodworking. 

We've made 2 bowls, a crane, a hammer, a wheel, a little table, and a shot gun.  First, we figure out what we're going to make.  Then we find the right piece of wood.  If we're making like a bowl or something like that (like a round thing or something), you'll usually want to do it on the lave (lathe).  Because it spins it and you don't have to go all the way around, you put it in one place and it spins and grinds it down.  Then we get it off the lave and we might polish it if we're all done, or sometimes we might have to bring it to the saw or the sander.  We might have to buff it.  But if we're making a bowl or stick or something, it's usually a lot of it on the lave.

I like working with him because as soon as I saw how much stuff he had made out of wood (around the house and on the shelves he has a lot of stuff that he has made) I thought, "Well, he can help me make stuff."  We like doing it because he's the guy who likes doing it and I like doing it a lot, too.  I'm his apprentice in doing woodworking stuff.

Crampaw, if you're reading this, Happy Birthday and thanks for helping me make the woodworking stuff!