- Grandpa use to take me downtown to see the trains
- Grandma's chicken 'n dumplins
- Grandpa always drank buttermilk with every meal
- Grandma's laugh when something was really funny
- Grandma making me watch Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk with her when I was there Saturday nights
- Grandma calling us to tell us who was on Hee Haw every Saturday at 7 and to turn it on
- Grandma letting me drag all her pots and pans and almost every pillow I could find into the den to make a train
- Grandma's Rose Milk lotion
- My collection of rubber bands from the driveway. Grandpa always picked up the paper in the driveway, took the rubber band off as he was walking back and just dropped it. It was like a treasure hunt.
- The smell and feel of Grandpa's tool house
- How he always had something taken apart and working on it
- The old license plates in there
- How he always let me play with the croquet set but never showed me how to play
- The tiny bright green snake I raked up that Grandpa thought was so funny
- The coastal pine trees lining the yard that Tony brought Grandma from somewhere
- The great climbing trees in the their yard
- The HUGE HUGE ant on the porch one day and Grandma not even blinking
- How Grandma used to pull grandaddy longlegs off trees by a leg to show me there was nothing to be afriad of
- I thought bats weren't real, like witches and vampires, until Grandma pointed them out at near dark one night. THAT got me inside.
- The hammock and sharing it with Grandpa
- Grandpa drove up our road one day, waved, and I waved back. A little while later he drove back down the street and gave me a $50. For waving he said. (3rd grade)
- The money tree (pennies) they had in the kitchen
- That tin grandma always had biscuits in. Little, hard biscuits.
- She kept the crackers in the stove
- Grandpa ate anything you gave him even though he had like, 4 teeth. And then wiped up anything left on his plate with a piece of bread. lol
- Grandpa's peppermints. Always had one in his pocket.
- How he was always jingling his change in his pocket
- That funny shuffling dance Grandpa did
- How Grandma always called a cold a "bad cold"
- How Grandma used the word "directly" but with the "d" pronounced more like a soft "t" ... "I'll be there tirectly."
- How they always said "Come hug my neck"
- Grandpa loved his Fig Newtons. They were always in the cupboard.
sep 8 2008 ∞
jan 21 2014 +
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