the morning's comings and goings {line up}

they love to line up their guys on the front window lip.

every morning i open up the shutters {and all of the blinds for that matter} when i come down.

we are just not "going" until all of the shutters are open.

sometime after breakfast, sometimes before, 

all of the guys get placed in their front row spot to the morning's comings and goings of our neighborhood.

it reminds me of how my grandfather used to line up 

tiny little rubber animals 

on the window lip of his dental office when we were kids.

go to get your teeth cleaned.

come home with an assortment of differently colored rubber animals.

once he pulled out my snaggle tooth.

i puked immediately after he used his pliers to pull it out.

i got extra rubber animals.

little treasures i collected over the years.

no idea when they were thinned out of my toys.

what i would give to take my kids to his old office 

to get their teeth cleaned 

and pick out a little rubber animal.

:):):)

{grandfather and me on the beach.}

{don't you dare call him grandpa. he'll come back from the dead to haunt you for it.}

{grand-FATHER.}

wasn't he just so cute:)