Thursday, March 21, 2013

Grandma "Do you like my hat?"


Grandma Joyce brought out a playdough fun pack.   She and Sabrina played Playdough every day or night of the trip while Grandma Joyce was visiting.   At one point a little part of the press gun was put on their heads and they imitated "Go, Dog, Go!"   with "Do you like my hat?"   This went on for several minutes and was followed by much laughter.


Tuesday we toured the Juliette Gordon Low Birth House.   Juliette was the founder of the Girl Scouts.   She was an amazing women with amazing talent in art and craftsmanship.   Throughout the house, her paintings, sculptures and woodworking decorated the rooms.   In a couple of cases, she had changed portraits of people, re-painting hands and lightening up the paintings to suit her.   In the dining room, she totally had repainted a portrait of her grandmother so the original portrait could be placed in another family home.   She also had pieces of furniture where she had taken a wood burner and added interesting designs to jazz up the pieces.    Originally, the Girls Scouts were started in England and called the Girl Rangers.   The story I recall from the tour is that Juliette was friends with the leader of the Boy Rangers.   Unbeknown to him a bunch of girls signed up for the boy rangers using their initials.   The leader could not allow them to join the boys, so he asked Juliette to be their leader.   When she moved back to Savannah, she started a branch here and changed the names to Girl Scouts.   She also took the girls on camping trips and felt that girls could learn any skill.      We learned so much about this amazing woman, her life and legacy.
After lunch we went to Forsythe Park where Sabrina spent most of the time on this duck, springy ride.


On the bench with Grandma Joyce at the park!   Happy Day!

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