Life at Laurelledge with Chris

When Chris was quite young--two or three years old--he stayed with us for a while. He made life at Laurelledge quite interesting and sometimes--exciting.
We were planting onions on one occasion and Chris was patiently playing at the end of the rows. We had laid off straight rows and opened furrows into which we placed the onion sets. We covered the bublets and left nature to take its course in sprouting new plants.
Several days later I went to that plot of gadening to see how the new plants were progressing. There were several straight rows of healthy onions. At one end of those rows, where Chris had been so patiently playing while we planted, was a circle of onion plants. Chris had done some planting of his own--he had created "a circle of onions"!
We were adding a new living room to our domicile. The floor joists were in place and a "walk-way" was needed in order to get to the entrance door. I had put down a temporary path of plywood and purposely left the anchoring nails sticking up enought so I could pull them out when ready to lay the more permanent sub-floor. With his little hammer, Christ had very carefully and thoroughly hammered each of those nails solidly into the wood. I had a "dickens" of a time getting those nails out!
On another occasion, I was watching Chris and working on that new room, I had to be on the roof for awhile so I left young Chris on the ground where I could "watch" him while I worked on the roof. Turning away briefly, I looked back just in time to see that little tyke coming toward me over the edge of the roof. To my horror, he had climbed the ladder to "see what Grandee was doing". I was scared for his safety but he perfectly at ease.