It's a MIRIKOWEE

Wow, another project completed. Nick had to stay home today because we had a leak. Discovered yesterday when he went down to do computer work before we left for church, he heard dripping in the bathtub in the basement. ONLY to find out there was a leak under the kitchen sink that ran to the basement - that was leaking into the light fixture in the tub so we had to call the builder on a Sunday morning at 10 a.m. to come and tell us what to do.

While Nick was off, he managed to finish putting up the shelves for our Pinnochio collection in the game room over the garage. As soon as I got home tonight, I didn't even change out of my work clothes, I was into the eaves (storage area) found the box of our Pinnochio's tucked away and pulled them all out.

As I began to unwrap them, tears came to my eyes. I could not believe how many we have collected over the years. All the different sizes and kinds. Nick counted them we have 96!!

Above are a few pics of them, before they went up and then on the great new shelves Nick did such a good job on building in his handy work room down stairs - that didn't manage to float away due to the leak.

By the way, thanks to finding the leak, we also found out that the blower had come unhooked to the a/c heating unit in the basement and that's why I could not work down there lest I froze to death every time EVEN though the heat was set at 75 degrees. So the Lord works in mysterious ways.

Oh, and the story behind Pinnochio - when Robbie was still alive, he LOVED watching Pinnochio the movie, he could not say the name. He pronounced it Mirikowee. After he died, Pinnochio's became very special to us because of that. We began collecting them in his memory and when we go antiquing, we look for them in all sizes and shapes. The very first one in this group of pictures is the first one I got from my twin sister Barbie, and thus the collection has grown to 96!