"Adam and Eve" by Lorraine Strieby and Sandro the Mole

This is Sandro again.  Rome and Florence inspired me and

also Strieby.  While Gus, our Omega Mole, was doing

cartwheels in the Uffizi Museum, Strieby and I were

getting a sketch of Botticelli’s Venus and then we

went out on the square and sketched Michelangelo’s

David (the fake one). These famous works of art are

only a few blocks away from each other  so it was

a perfect match for "Adam and Eve."

You can see our version in Strieby’s “All Roads 

Lead to Rome.”  A lot of artists paint their version 

Of Adam and Eve, and this is our painting. 

It took about a year, and Strieby said this is for

our collection only, but you can see an image of  our "Adam and Eve"

in Book 3, on Amazon/Kindle..

I can’t wait to write about Bernini, but I hear

her car coming.  I’ll hop in my redoubt,  under
Tunnel I-5 so she can't find me.  Bye, Sandro

ICE CASTLES AND PERMANENT SAND CASTLES BY SANDRO IN THE MAYOR MOLLY MCMOLE SERIES

My name is Sandro and live in the Mayor Molly McMole Series.

Part of the time I live in Valdez, Alaska, and work for

Vinnie the Shrew during the winter by carving ice castles.

When our whole crew visited Florence and Rome in Strieby’s

book, “All Roads Lead to Rome,” I did sketches of Medieval

architecture and couldn’t wait to work for Vinnie, a shrew who is a real

estate mole who rents out twinkling ice castles that are a joy to

see.  I am getting better at it and when we get to

Hawaii I will be in charge of building a permanent

sand castle.  Tourists love to see my work. 

Thank you, Molly, for letting me borrow Strieby’s

laptop, and thank you, Spider Leggs, for finding that

recipe  for permanent sand castles. 

You can find the story in Book 3 and 4 of Lorraine Strieby's 

The Mayor Molly McMole Series

KILAUEA JUST SPILLED LAVA ALL OVER THE PLACE, JUST LIKE A MESSY CHILD

VOLCANOES  are always erupting all over the world, however, it seems

that the volcanoes in Hawaii are always going off.  Kilauea just 

spewed lava yesterday all over the place,.  Lorraine Strieby explains to your 

child about  how shield volcanoes are formed and consequently

how Hawaii was formed.  

Even a mole like me can understand it when she puts words to

a page.  Remember, you and your child can read it on Amazon/

Kindle in her fourth book, Mayor Molly McMole Follows the

Sun.”  

Do you know the difference between  shield and Pelean volcanoes?

PELEANS  were named after the beautiful Hawaiian Goddess Pele.

They also blow their tops.  Shields are nice and smooth. 

Strieby makes PELE so beautiful and powerful holding the sun

and moon in her arms. Take a look in her new book.

Hey, Sandro wants to get into the act.  So my dear friend

will be blogging too when Strieby is away.

Got to scamper, I here Strieby coming!  BYE

Spy Called a Mole

This is me again.  Wow, did you hear the news today.

There is a mole in the CiA.

Lorraine Strieby doesn’t know that I am writing this, but

her fifth book is coming out soon—"Why Is a Spy Called a

Mole?"

It tells how my famous ancestor, Christopher McMole,

helped George Washington win the Revolutionary War.  

I read it and your toddler will know more about the

Revolution than most adults.  

I overheard that I will narrate the story.  Your Mole Friend,

Mayor Molly McMole
This  adventure series book will be  on Amazon soon.

Cat The Nafarious SNOOKIMS in All Roads Lead to Rome

The villain cat in the Mayor Molly McMole series is glaring at

me as I type this message.  Being a Mayor and a Mole he 

does not know how to take me on. You see, I am a dear friend

of the brave hero cat, Sophia.  

Just imagine Sophia the cat and Abby riding a motorcycle

through the streets of Florence and Rome.  You get the

picture. Snookims is jealous, but he gets his come-up-ins 

in Lorraine Strieby’s 4th book taking place in Kauai, Mayor
 Molly McMole Follows the Sun.  Amazon/Kindle

Hear Strieby coming, Got to go!!  

Sand Castles, Mayor Molly McMole Follows the Sun (4th book)

I hopped up on the table where Strieby keeps her laptop.

I thought today would be a good day to write  about castles and fish, maybe

even whales.  Strangely they go together in my mole life. You see Strieby 

knows this and has weaved all this in her new book.

This castle was made by me and my talented mole friends, Keith. Fredie, and Sandro, 

cousin Vinnie the Shrew, and Spider Leggs

Spider found a recipe on his web on how to make permanent sand castles.

We had made castles out of plain dirt before (Book 1), but this was 

 a real challenge.  It even has a spiraling staircase. This is no little  grass

shack and we could easily see humuhumunukunukuapua’as (state fish)

swimming by. glistening in the water.  Occasionally a small water spout

and large fins would get our attention from the whales who

visted eaxh year from the Gulf of Alaska.

This is my gift to you today. Many blessings from Mayor Molly

McMole, wishing she were back in Kauai with Lorraine  

filling her in about a book about my

famous ancestor, Christopher McMole, stay tuned!

WHO IS MAYOR MOLLY MCMOLE ANY WAY?

I'm  Mayor Molly McMole in mole/person,  Yes.I am really a mole!  

I built tunnels on top of each other and named them I-5,

I-10,and I-15 and  lined them with domed castles.  

HERE WE ARE FLYING IN VINNIE THE SHREW'S PLANE ON OUR WAY TO THE ANCHORAGE AIRPORT TO CATCH OUR PLANE TO ROME  AND STRIEBY'S NEXT BOOK-
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME

Strieby doesn’t know but I am using her laptop and opened up this

blog.  She wrote a series about me and my friends but I need to

fill in some background here.  

She is a fast typist and I am a hunt and peck keyboarder and this

takes a little time.  Have you seen a mole?  No one has had a pet mole.

It is  strange sitting here in her studio.

Lorraine and I are friends now, but she told her cat, Sophia, to go down one

of my mole holes and get rid of me.  Not so fast, Lorraine,

I didn’t become Mayor of Mole Town because I was a dummy.

I befriended Sophia and you can read all about how I

did it in Book One, Sophia the Cat and Mayor Molly

McMole, sold on Kindle//Amazon. SHE DID A WHOLE SERIES--6 BOOKS!

Got to leave now.  I hear her coming in the house. Got to hide... We moles are 

extremely good at that.

lorrainestrieby.com