Hello, Ethan... I'd like to get to know you

Ethan, we haven't met yet but I'd like to get to know you and I'd like for you to get to know me. I'm your Granddaddy on your Mommy's side... that means that I am your Mommy's Daddy.

If you would like to call me something other than Granddaddy, please feel free to do so. I picked the name Granddaddy because that's what your Mommy called my Daddy. Please let me know what you'd like to call me.

I live in Tennessee (near the little red dot).

Ask your Mommy to click on this link (it's a map of the USA) and then click on Virginia (to make it red) where you live; then click on Oklahoma where she grew up and went to college (Oral Roberts University) and then click on Tennessee where I live. I'm only 20 miles from Alabama and 30 miles from Georgia. I'm about 85 miles south of Nashville (the city famous for country music and where I grew up as a little bitty boy) and about 55 miles west of Chattanooga, Tennessee which is famous for the "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" (an old fashioned train). Have your Mommy click here and listen to an old song called "Chattanooga Choo-Choo." You can also watch a little video of Thomas the Tank Engine.

I live on a mountain (here are some pictures of the house I built ... there's a picture of you on one of the recent postings... I'm really proud of you and tell everyone about you) but I go to church down in the valley in a little town that has a train that comes through several times an hour. The town has refurbished the old train station and also has redone an old locomotive like Thomas the Tank Engine... here's a picture of it.

I'll try to take a video of the old train and the new train coming through town and send it to you because I think your Mommy told me that you really like trains. I like trains too so we have our second thing in common. The first thing we have in common is that we both love your Mommy.

Well, I'll end here for today. Over the next weeks and months I'm going to tell you things about me so when we finally get a chance to meet, you'll know a little about me.

I love you, Ethan,

Granddaddy