Future Dreams and Dreams Realized

I know it has been a week or so since my last posting. Like most people, I have 36 things to do each week and only 24 things worth of time to do them. Days go by so quickly, I find myself asking confirmations from the few people I trust as to what day it is. As an example my wife, Janan, told me my granddaughter was going to be “one” the other day and I replied, “Boy that month went by in a hurry!” Rachael turned one year old last week. In case anyone has forgotten what she looks like, I have provided a couple of reminders from her first year birthday party.

I hope whoever took the time to check my posts read the bio on our Mr. Semere. Yemane has performed as a true professional for G & H. We are thankful for his service and loyalty.

Finally, our new machining facility is about three weeks from completion. This project will define G & H for years to come. Everything I have learned and experienced in the past 35 years will be invested into the physical and spiritual nature of this new shop. In short, this is personal.

Specifically my dream will flesh out as follows:

1. The physical shop is being built to exact specifications. This will be a fully climate controlled, 100% crane serviced facility with polished concrete floors and epoxy coating on all of the interior walls.
2. We have installed gallery windows between the shop and the offices so everyone can feel they are involved in the customers’ work.
3. There is an oversized break-room that will allow us to bring all of our people together for training, partying, or praying. This is a true luxury and blessing.
4. We have doubled the quality management area to provide our professionals with everything they will need to give our customers the assurances they deserve.
5. Each of the people working in the shop will be treated as professionals and will be expected to behave accordingly. We will have pledges for each of them to sign that spells out what will be expected from them. The pledges will stress mutual respect and commitment.
6. We have enlisted professional production and quality people that are fully experienced in lean manufacturing techniques.
7. We will solicit machining work from companies that hold like values to us. We will stress quality and delivery like never before and will be honest with ourselves about the performance in these two areas.

Most modern companies today will embrace all of these ideas in some form or another, but many times the system will break down and one or more of their “virtues” will fall by the wayside. I am committed to keep our commitments alive. This shop may very well be my last big challenge before I hand off the daily affairs of G & H to abler hands, and I am determined to build and maintain its character.

Featured Employees - Taking a Break

Wouldn't it happen that after just getting started on our Feature Employee for the week, we would have to take a break? Look for our next featured employee, Jose Linqui, the week of June 16!

Yemane Semere - Featured Employee

Now that we have this wonderful website to showcase our company, we are going to be featuring a G&H employee each week. In deciding which employee should go first, I decided to start with the one with the longest service – Yemane Semere!

Yemane joined G&H as a machine operator on January 27, 1989, when we were located in northwest Houston. I asked him what he remembered about his early days at the company and he said, “When I first started with G&H 20 years ago, I remember it being small. Now G&H has grown to a huge company. I’ve been through the good and the bad and I’m glad to still be with this organization.”

If you look at Yemane’s picture, you will see that he is standing next to his favorite machine, our Trumpf Tubematic laser machine, which he has operated since our purchase of it back in 2004.

Yemane was born in 1960 in a small country in Africa called Eritrea. It is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered on the northeast and east by the Red Sea, on the west and northwest by Sudan, on the south by Ethiopia, and on the southeast by Djibouti.

In 1985, Yemane married Almaz. At the time, the war in Eritrea to regain independence from Ethopia was failing so in 1986, Yemane and Almaz made the decision to leave family and come to the United States to seek asylum. They first went to New York and later made their way to Houston. After many long years of waiting, they were able to obtain their U.S.A. citizenship and have been citizens for 16 years!

Yemane and Almaz have been married for 23 years (congratulations for hanging in there) and have three children: a son Biniam, 18, a daughter Eden, 13, and a daughter Sabina, 5. All three children were born in Houston, Texas!

I asked Yemane what he does with his time off and he smiled when he said, “It’s all spent with the kids.” He explained that Almaz works the night shift for a company that assembles computer chips and he works day shift at G&H. They do that so there is always a parent at home with the children. He further explained that every day when he gets off work, he takes Biniam (a black belt) to Karate. On Saturday afternoons after work, he takes Eden and Sabina to play soccer. It’s all about the kids!

Here’s something I bet you didn’t know about Yemane – I sure didn’t! He used to play soccer – and lots of it! He was part of a tournament team and played in many different places, including Washington D.C., Seattle, Dallas and Canada. He played until about five years ago (hey, wasn’t that when Sabina was born?).

Yemane is an active member of his church, Eritrean Tewahedo Orthodox Church of Christ, and his local community. When you see Yemane, I hope you will join me in thanking him for his hard work and service at G&H!

Why Do We Have To Assign Blame?

The 5/20/08 Houston Chronicle published an article about the family of one Steven Domalewski who is filing a lawsuit against Hillerich & Bradsby (makers of the Louisville Slugger bat), Little League Baseball, and Sports Authority (where the bat was purchased). No dollar amount has been offered, but I am quite sure the family’s attorney, Ernest Fronzuto, will suggest a number in the low to mid eight-digit range. That is expected, no cents – oh sorry – no sense in going for anything less.

The suit claims the makers of the aluminum bat, the non-profit organization that sanctioned its use, and the store that sold the thing are negligent because they knew beforehand that the bat was “dangerous” for children to use. That is a pretty amazing claim considering the fact that a bat is an inanimate object with no moving parts, and is totally incapable of doing anything until a human being picks it up. Even more amazing is the fact these bats have dominated all Little League and college ball for at least 15 years.

I am not a professional writer, so I really don’t know how to knit this story together. The article, “Someone is to blame here” is available at www.chron.com so anyone who has any interest can get the details and follow along. I am simply going to put my points into a list. This is how a manufacturing engineer supports his position.

1. This is a subject I know something about. I am a professional engineer as well as a father of a very talented ball player. My Danny played from little league all through middle and high school and two years at the University of Central Florida (Division 1). My brother-in-law, Jay Bergman, is the head coach of the Central Florida Golden Knights and is recognized nationally for his leadership and understanding of the game. Go to www.ucf.com and find out what I am talking about. I honestly know of no other person who is more knowledgeable about the game of baseball.

2. Jay and I agree there is no question that when an aluminum bat strikes a standard baseball, the ball will exit the collision at a higher speed than a similar collision with a wooden bat. This is why the aluminum bat was invented! It promised more “action” in the little league, high school and college games. The game of baseball is and has always been about hitting, and any “legal” innovation to improve this ability is always embraced.

3. High school and college organizations wanted to increase the excitement of the games and give players an opportunity to perform more closely to their professional brethren. The bat raises batting averages, home runs and RBI counts. In a very short time, the aluminum bat displaced the entire wooden bat inventory and there was nothing but total parental approval, or at the minimum, acceptance. And this wasn’t yesterday!

4. Ask anyone knowledgeable about the game why MLB still uses the wooden bat and they will tell you it is to keep the ball inside those hundred million dollar stadiums. In college, high school, and little league, they will tell you the aluminum bat helps the player put the ball outside of the park!

5. Player, coach, and parent all embraced the aluminum bat for its effectiveness and Sports Authority, Oshman’s, Academy, Dick’s, Walmart, etc. have been selling little else for years. The Domalewski family acts as though they were blindsided by a new terrible secret weapon and deceived by the manufacturers. This is nonsense. Any kid 12 years of age and playing ball on a regular league basis was not only aware of the aluminum bat’s performance, but would constantly lobby his parents for their own personal unit. I bought Danny a number of these bats at an average cost of $275 each. Ask the question - did Steven’s parents buy him a bat of similar construction?

6. I know enough about little league ball at age 12 to understand that any boy pitching at that age is almost positively a star hitter as well. I will bet he was a very good athlete. He would pick up that bat and, regardless of any perceived threat, would swing away with every bit of strength he had. It would never cross his mind that he might be injured or might injure another player.

7. Given all of the above, I will ask the question “Where were Mom and Dad during this game?” Were they anxiously waiting for the fateful moment of their boy’s injury or were they cheering on their son and were taken totally by surprise by an incredibly unusual and weird event that wouldn’t happen again in the next 100 years? Exactly when did the parent’s perception of this weird accident morph into the concept of negligent action?

8. What about the ball! That evil little thing did all the damage. How is it that Mr. Spaulding gets off the hook? What about the Police Athletic League? I am sure there was someone in the closet maliciously planning this accident. What about the field owner? Why didn’t they have emergency medical staff at the game ready for such an emergency? Now that is negligent. What about the kid who hit the ball? Was he tested for steroids and his age verified? What about the doctor who first attended the boy! This event screams malpractice!

No, this is a story about the money and the easiest path to it. The money the insurers are going to pay the family so their boy can be very well taken care of for the rest of his natural life. Someone has to pay. Mr. Fronzuto, unless he is brain dead, knows if he brings Steven into the courtroom the jury will melt and make sure that evil bat maker pays up. And of course, that is exactly why the insurance companies will never let it go to court.

In the end, everyone will get paid off and Steven unfortunately won’t be any better off for the effort. The losers will be all of us who believe God is sovereign and that this kind of thing just happens. There is no blame, only the continued erosion of America’s sense of justice.

Ageless Innovation

George M. Verity of Middletown, Ohio, founded the American Rolling Mill Company (ARMCO) in 1900. From the onset, Mr. Verity had little interest in producing common steel products such as plate, bar, or other structural shapes. Sheet steel was to be his mission. Automobiles were going to use lots of sheet, as were construction products, appliances and electrical equipment. The inherent strength of steel in thin sections was going to change the economic model for this developing nation and Armco was going to be on the cutting edge of this limb of the industrial evolutionary tree.

At the time, standard sheet steel production methods were laborious and time consuming. Plates or “billets” of heavy steel were introduced in a yellow/orange hot condition to the sheet rolling mill. The sheet rollers would pass the plate/billet back and forth through an ever-closing single stand mill reminiscent to the wringing rolls of an early washing machine. Each pass would reduce the plate’s thickness and at the same time, increase its length and (less so) its width. By the time the sheet was reduced to the desired thickness, its overall size was considerably longer and wider than the original plate. Needless to say, this thin sheet was difficult to handle and keep flat. A better method was needed if sheet product was ever going to take its rightful place as an economical structural material.

Several years later an inventive and energetic engineer by the name of Charles Hook became the plant superintendent for the rolling mill. Hook was convinced that a continuous method of production was essential whereby a heavy section of steel entered the process and passed through a series of mill stands all going in the same direction, each time reducing the thickness to the desired dimension and then coiled at the last station. This coil could then be sold to steel processing centers to slit the coils to size for the end user.

Unfortunately, no supplier existed that could furnish a packaged mill. Mr. Hook would need to build his own. He found mill stands from all over and lined them up so that the sheet steel would pass through each in sequence. This was massive equipment and a massive job; one that would shake the very foundations of the corporate treasury. There was no model, no precedent for this kind of experiment.

The very first reality check came when Hook realized how the velocity of the material dramatically increased through the mill as the thickness continued to decrease. He needed to calculate (without any computing help) the velocity of the material exiting any of the coil stands and make sure the next stand was set to accept smoothly the higher roll speed input. Errors in these calculations resulted in the dreaded “cobble” whereby the steel would jam up into a compressed ribbon of useless steel sheet between any two-mill stands. Cobbles destroyed equipment, they were massive safety hazards, and very time- consuming to eradicate from the line. Every time a cobble occurred, Hook didn’t go home for the day and the Treasurer went to visit with his banker.

Finally Hook succeeded and the new continuous “hot strip” line began producing high quality sheet steel at far lower cost. From now on, coiled steel would feed the nations presses in a continuous process. Mill sheets are cut from coil like so many paper towels cut from the roll.

This kind of corporate courage was much more common in this era or at least it appears so. It still exists in companies like Corning, Intel, and Boeing, etc., but as a nation, we are in desperate need of a revival of spirit that recognizes our future fortune is directly linked to our ability to do what Americans have historically done so well. Innovation is the life blood of an industrial economy.

Hope in New York

Today I am sharing a story of success and hope for American manufacturers. I believe it is important.

Anyone driving east on I-86 from I-90 will come to the city of Elmira, New York. When I was in college, way back in 1973, I had the opportunity to spend a little time in the area. Elmira is the gliding and soaring capital of America. Something to do with the hills and the air currents (or thermals) make the area particularly well suited for motor less flight. These gliders are towed into the sky and stay there for hours making no noise whatsoever; really awesome. This is Finger Lakes country with beautiful forests, lakes, and countless wineries. The Watkins Glen raceway is nearby and did I mention the wineries?

This area is also home to Corning Inc. located in the town by the same name. Even though I visited there more than 30 years ago I have vivid memories of the town and the “factory”. They have an outstanding museum which I can only imagine is now far superior today to when I visited. As you enter the museum you see a huge piece of glass cast into sort of semi-spherical shape. If you go to the Corning website (http://www.corning.com/) it is the odd geodesic looking thing on their homepage. Evidently this is the largest piece of glass ever cast for a 200” telescope, and a miracle of manufacturing at the time. You can see artisans producing glass objects by hand that make their way into the Steuben collections of fine glassware.

But the real magic is something you won’t see in the museum. The Wall Street Journal published an article (3/7/08) written by Sara Silver (write to sara.silver@wsj.com). In this piece she tells the story of a company with a history of innovation and corporate courage that is rare in this country and becoming rarer. It is a story of “betting the ranch” on technology that is unproven; of making huge investments that won’t give shareholders a return for decades or longer.

This company bakes its own innovation “bread” inside its own factories as opposed to buying packaged technologies from startups or seed companies. This in-house only culture explains why most senior managers and engineers have spent their entire career at the company. They, literally, believe they are all in this together and will share in the rewards or sacrifices together. Let me summarize the accomplishments Ms. Silver outlines.

1. This company is 157 years old, but didn’t go public until 1945. This explains a great deal about the corporate culture. The company is home grown; a true tribute to the way America used to create corporate wealth.

2. Even though they have 50 manufacturing facilities all over the world, they shy away from outsourcing or joint ventures preferring to own and operate their facilities.

3. An investment made over 25 years ago bloomed and made Corning the world leader in the manufacture of liquid-crystal-display glass for flat panel display TV’s. Last year 92% of the $2.2 billion net income was generated by this single product line. This is courage!

4. Most of you will remember when Corning became the largest supplier in the world of fiber optic cable. They literally “wired” the planet, until the tech bubble burst late in the 1990’s leaving massive amounts of dark cable. The company flirted with bankruptcy and laid off half of its workers. The company survived and today, less than ten years later still retains a market capitalization of $36 billion and 25,000 employees.

5. Today the company is making a huge bet risking $500 million on the development of automotive and truck diesel emission filters. Their new $370 million manufacturing plant in Erwin N.Y. is running at capacity. Management will consider this project a success when they are the world market leader with $2 billion in sales by 2011.

6. Also in Erwin a $300 million research and development center is under construction to house 1700 engineers and scientists. This facility is not for application engineering, rather for basic research on hundreds of speculative projects.

I promised you an American hero in development and product manufacturing. Corning, in my opinion is a shining example. They understand that confronting risk head on in many cases is an exercise in faith in their people. They understand that real wealth comes from developing and making something no one else can provide, but the market demands. I believe this is a company that will endure because they are familiar with failure and have conquered their fear of it.

Ms. Silver quotes Mr. Nikos Theodosopoulos an analyst for UBS; “Culturally, they’re not afraid to invest and lose money for many years. That style is not American any more.”

I will strongly disagree with Mr. Nikos’ statement. This style is precisely American. It is simply that management weakness, fear, greed, and short-term thinking has become the norm for a great number of American companies.

Tomorrow we will go back in time.

The Power of Innovation

Well, we are going to wade a little deeper today!

Last week and earlier this week Hillary and Barack were running around in North Carolina and Indiana trying to answer the questions about lost jobs to overseas manufacturers. They are well aware that Indiana and North Carolina have lost well over 100,000 and 200,000 manufacturing jobs respectively since 2001, and as the so-called “champions” of labor, they dutifully blamed China, NAFTA, and the Bush administration for all of it. Both candidates have solutions and made promises appropriate on the occasion.

All of this is fine and well except those and a great many additional jobs will continue to be exported and there is little or nothing the Democrats or Republicans can (or should) do about it. The Chinese and Indian people/governments have figured out that these jobs are ripe for the taking. Consider that each of these nations are centuries older than the U.S., have strong national identities, and have over a billion people each that want the same things any human being on the face of the planet wants. Particularly, the Chinese are motivated, clever and industrious so when it comes to sanding, assembling, painting, sewing, polishing, etc. it is simply naïve to think our workers are going to win out. No, these jobs are gone and going regardless of the denials and promises of our current or future politicians.

So, do I, as an owner of a small manufacturing company, believe we are doomed and destined for subjugation? I do believe we face a real, third world war-type struggle for economic survival. The odds are 2 billion to 300 million (or almost 7 to 1 if you spend any time in Las Vegas). I think we, as a nation, have lived so well for so long that most of us believe our standard of living is guaranteed somewhere in the Bill of Rights, but are too __________ (fill in the blank) to confirm it. But, no, I believe we have the trump card in this game. The United States has been the most innovative country in modern world history. Our superior ability to invent, and produce has been clearly and repeatedly demonstrated over the last 230 years. Abraham Lincoln spoke on numerous occasions about the fragility of our new, innovative and untested form of popularly elected national government. He was so convinced of its merit, he would take this nation to war against itself to preserve and validate the experiment. WW I & WW II, the Russian Sputnik and the Cold War produced incredible new American technology.

Now, the question is raised as to whether or not this national talent remains strong enough to secure our position in the world economy. On Monday and Tuesday I will offer what I believe is undeniable proof American inventiveness and competitiveness is alive and well. Well enough to “carry the day” I don’t dare speculate. Maybe you, the reader would like to do so.

Thanks and click us on tomorrow.

Blog for 5/5/08

May 5, 2008

Good morning! Here in Houston we are enjoying some soft showers that are quite welcome as the last month or so have been very dry. Even better is the fact that my wife and I spent our weekend putting in all of the plants and flowers for the summer and just as we completed the job God gives us what we could never give ourselves. Praise His Name!

Today I am going to weigh in on the energy issue. We live in Houston, Texas, and as a consequence, we live and breathe petroleum (and in some parts of the city I mean this literally!). Our business here produces products for the industry to the tune of 90% of our volume. G & H opened a new facility in Indianapolis for the sole purpose of diluting the energy content of the company (OK, maybe to make a dollar or two in the process). In any case we Houstonians are probably more opinionated about the energy business, as a group, than any other people outside of the Middle East. Given this assumption, I hereby claim the right to offer these suggestions.

1. MOVE! I don’t care if you move your home closer to work or your work closer to home. The idea is to eliminate the 20 to 90 minutes you spend driving each way, each day of each work week. Why do we do this? This was an idea hatched in the 50’s and 60’s when gasoline was at $.35 per gallon. Then driving was a luxury and a pleasure. I mean people were paid to put gasoline into your tank for you and you became quite miffed when that same guy didn’t wash the windshield. For heaven’s sake he’s just standing there with the nozzle in his hand! No, these times are gone for good. The model is outdated, obsolete, and it is draining this country of vast amounts of resources. We build billion dollar freeways – sorry – toll ways, to transport ourselves from one congested place to another. It is not a mystery that if you take your average 9-hour workday, 8 hours of sleep, 2 hours of total commute (includes stopping for gas every 4 days), the 1 hour of showering, shaving and sitting on the pot (men only), the remaining quality time is a grand total of 4 hours or about 17% of your day. Now you and I both know even the dog won’t come around us for the first hour after we get home, so now you are left with 3 hours of blissful time with family or friends. Let’s give the points:

* Living within 10-15 minutes from work will increase those blissful hours by an astounding 50%! Better still the 1½ hours you have eliminated from the toll way are probably some of the most stressful of the day so now the dog and the kids will come around much sooner and you gain another 30 minutes of the good stuff.

* You can have that Tahoe SUV now because you aren’t driving the hell out of it! You are helping the American auto industry stay alive and hitting Big Oil in the gut.

* Since you are not buying nearly as much gas, the oil speculators have to unwind their positions and the price will fall at least to the inflation adjusted historical level. Don’t let anyone kid you - America still consumes something like 35% of the oil produced. Small changes will produce big changes.

* The cost for driving on Texas toll ways runs approximately $2.00 for every 20 minutes of drive time. For a 30 minute one-way commute, this will total $6.00 per day or $1500 per year. This is a tax like any other and it is not deductible for your average salary person. Don’t do it!

2. MOVE/ADD WATER HEATERS. Heating water uses a lot of energy, but in our homes we don’t think much about it. We don’t care that the builder put the single 50 gallon water heater in the garage even though the master bath is 65 feet away. I certainly don’t mind waiting the average of three minutes for my hot water to arrive in the shower. Most days I just jump right into the cold water because it feels so good when the hot finally comes on and I certainly don’t mind taking the time to wait for warm water after going to the bathroom to wash my hands. Doesn’t everyone feel the same way?

Winter! They have that season in most of the country and that only makes things more interesting. How about when you visit friends and after five minutes you have to ask if they even have hot water only to be told to just get back in bed for five more minutes. This is the season that you have to have 12 inches of water in the tub instead of the usual 8 in the summer because the first 4 inches are freezing.

Copper pipes. They use copper because it doesn’t rust and rarely leaks. Unfortunately it holds heat in like a screen door. So now we have 65 feet of tubing with hot water only to let the heat radiate into the attic. This is done over and over each day and in virtually every bath and kitchen in America. What is the cost? I don’t really have a clue, but I know there are millions of slightly irritated people spending countless minutes waiting to get into their showers; staring at the water and betting the next drops are warm; quickly putting their hand or foot into the stream only to be greeted with that cold splash that takes the “slightly” out of the irritation.

When you remodel or build tell the contractor you want a small 20-30 gallon heater for the kitchen, master bath, and especially, for the full guest bath. Yes, it will cost more than the garage heater, but your house guests will remark to you what a lovely shower they had and only you will know why.

3. FIG IVY. This diminutive, evergreen ivy is fast growing and, if kept trimmed, really looks nice on brick. It freezes so that limits its range, but for the coast it is great. What it is is very good exterior insulation for your home. My last house had a west-facing brick wall with a patio and pool that reflected the sun towards the wall. During sunny days, even in the spring or fall, this wall would get so warm it was hard to keep a hand on it. During the summer it was difficult to stand within 3 feet of the thing. I planted ivy in a bed some 8 feet away and this little leafed, fast growing plant covered that wall in one year. Immediately the dining room inside the house had cool walls and was noticeably more comfortable. Cost: $12.00 for three plants and several months to have an effect.

Thanks for visiting and please post any comments!

My first blog posting

Weblog April 30, 2008



Good afternoon! This is the first posting for my blog and I can tell you I am more than a bit anxious about it. I am a 56-year old engineer and like many people my age the concept of exposing me to the “world” is more than my fragile ego cares to take on. But so be it. What can you people do to a 30 year veteran of running his own company that hasn’t already been done? The internet is worldwide, but I am safe and sound in my small office and unless I give any of you my home address, I don’t think I will be expecting any ticking FedEx packages.
I am going to do this because of the following:

1. I always have an opinion about most things and since I do have all of this experience, I can share that with a less experienced audience. How do I know you are less experienced? Simple, I know lots of people my age (or a little older) that got their first cell phones last Christmas and most of them came as gifts from their children. Email? That takes too much time. Internet? Well, then they would need a computer and that was discussed last Christmas too. They took the phone. So if you are reading this posting, chances are you are not older than I am.


2. No one can interrupt me. This is the best thing. I can blab all I want and say anything I want and there is nothing anyone can do to shut me up. I tried talking with my wife like this when we first got married 30 years ago. No wonder email and the internet were invented (thank you, Al Gore). I am feeling better already and I have only written three paragraphs. Even when I take responses from all of you,I still reserve the right to accept or reject those I like and publish what I please. This is real power.

3. I really have some good experience in the manufacturing world and I want to interact with others in the field. Manufacturing in the U.S.A has declined continuously over the past decades and continues to do so. But we are poised for a rebound! The future is really brighter than we read in the papers! Very soon now the dollar will have fallen enough and our standard living will have sufficiently declined to where we will become the low cost producer of the world’s goods. Move over Viet Nam!


4. I have books that tell me it will be good for business. Robert Scoble in his book naked conversations (www.scobleizer.com) explains that my future as a businessman may very well depend on it. Some of the things he says are fairly persuasive; others are not. One thing he does make clear is that the internet will change things at an exponentially faster rate than anything in the past has done. Want an example? The words “blog” and “blogging” on my screen have squiggly red underlines and this is one-year old software (Word).

5. I believe blogging can make friends with people you would never take an interest in otherwise. Who has the time? The physical world takes more effort and energy than ever before. How do you fit new friendships into a day totally consumed by work, meals, sleep, family, American Idol, and afternoon naps? Consider we can have very real friendships without ever leaving our homes or office. Not a very novel thought to our children, but a revelation to most of the baby boomers.

That’s it for this posting. Since this is an open ended conversation, I can stop any time I want. I am posting pictures of my first grandchild Rachael (11 months). I am sure you will agree no words are needed.


Thanks for visiting.