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My husband's grandmother lives nearby. She is almost 87, but you would never know by watching her live everyday life. She is often gone on outings with friends and family. She delivers Meals on Wheels to people younger than herself! And when we do catch her at home, she shares her homemade bread, tea and cookies with us. One of my favorite pasrts of visiting Grandma is hearing her tell about the old days. She remembers her life in such vivid detail. One of the stories I like to hear her tell would cause the child protection agencies to shudder. She and two of her siblings were playing “Telephone' between the garage roof and the old oak tree that grew right beside it.The iceman came to deliver 50 lbs of ice for the icebox. The three children jumped down from the roof to go catch the shavings as he chopped the block off. Grandma remembers she always got a newspaper to wrap around her chunk. After he left, they all resumed their game. The older brother was chopping out his office in the oak tree and needed a hatchet. So the youngest sister ran to retrieve it. As she was passing the hatchet up to grandma (who was the operator) , grandma slipped on her wet newspaper and flipped off of the roof. She landed in the neighbors yard and borke only her funnybone. Amazing, really! Grandma clearly remembers sitting in the car waiting for her mother to take her to the doctor. Her siblings were peering in the window with concern when she hears the voice of the neighbor lady saying, “I knew this was going to happen one day!” Grandma has many more interesting stories like this. Like the one about how her house burned down and the nieghbors had all sewn them new clothes by the next day!! But that's a story for another day. She was born in 1920 and from a generation of people who had to develop character of steel! We are very blessed to have her be such a special part of our lives. By the way, I guess you noticed the buddy map is gone. I want to try another version of mapping my firnds, so I'm setting that aside for now. Look for another one in the future. |
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