One of my grandson’s is four years old, he has four sisters older than him age twelve, ten, eight and six and a baby brother soon to turn age one. His name is Gerrin. Ever since Gerrin has been eighteen months old he has loved trucks, tractors and heavy equipment. At age four he can tell you what a road grader is and what it does, what a Cat is and what it does and the same for a belly-dumper, backhoe, dump truck, road pave, shovel, front loader, crane and many other heavy equipment. He has toy tractors, front loaders, grader, dump trucks. It is his passion. The other three things he loves are cell phones, his other grandpa gave him an old worn out cellphone to play with and he is always pretending to phone people and make deals with his toy equipment for work. He also loves helicopters and airplanes and cookies, especially chocolate chip cookies. One other great love he has beyond family is his red teddy bear. Bear-bear.

Gerrin’s dad is a mechanic and he also has a dump truck, small D2 cat and a back hoe. The back hoe needs the engine rebuilt which has bugged Gerrin for the last two years. Almost nightly in his prayers among many other things he asks God to help daddy to get the backhoe fixed. Daddy has a lot of other things to do and will eventually get it fixed but it is not a priority at the time.

Last week Gerrin got to go with his dad to pick up some scrap metals and some other things. This lady is selling things and getting ready to move and wants all her deceased husbands old tractors and things gone. My son in law loaded up the things he came to get and told Gerrin to go and get in the car. Gerrin replied, I don’t want to go yet dad. He was looking right at a riding lawn mower. He then looked at his dad and said “I want that little tractor”. His dad said “Well you don’t have any money to buy it”. Gerrin replied ” You can buy if for me”. “The lady said it doesn’t run, it’s broken”. Gerrin said, I don’t care, daddy can help me fix it, right daddy? So daddy asked the lady what she would take for the riding lawn mower. The lady said, whatever you offer me I will take. Then Gerrin’s daddy asked Gerrin, What do you think the mower is worth Gerrin?” Gerrin looked at it walked around the riding mower, kicked it’s tire and said, “I would give only five dollars for it”.