Re: feature night tonight?

Posted by SweetFeet on March 10, 2014 at 19:52:35 from (70.35.103.74):

In Reply to: feature night tonight? posted by Larry@stinescorner on March 10, 2014 at 15:28:10:

My paternal grandparents.... as my other grandparents died real young, so I don't have memories of them.

Grandpa served in World War I. He was ill for a long time after the war due to poison that I think was called Mustard Gas. He and grandma didn't have kids until quite late in life, due to his bad health. But ultimately they raised 4 kids.

After recovering most of his health, grandpa became a farmer. They had the typical farm back in the day... cows, hogs, chickens, ducks, geese. They worked hard together on everything. They had a huge garden and canned everything imaginable from meat to garden produce to wild berries and plums - grandpa would help with canning because he was mostly retired by the time I can remember him. They butchered their own meat. Grandma always washed her clothes with a wringer washer and hung them on the line to dry. (She refused to get a modern washer and dryer until the late 1970's... and only conceded then, because she had cancer and could no longer handle laundry the old way).

Grandpa had a great sense of humor and liked to tease us grandkids. Another neat quality he had was that he NEVER told us kids to "go outside and play" to get rid of us at family gatherings. Instead he would think up a "job" that needed doing and offer the grandchild who accomplished the most to earn a small reward. So he would get us buckets and send us out to "pick up acorns of the lawn so I don't have to mow over them" or "gather up helicopter seeds from Maples...because I might want to plant a new grove someday" -- pretty smart old feller... kept us busy all afternoon and the adults could visit in peace. :)

He smoked a pipe and would give us grandkids an empty pipe to "smoke" while we sat under a shade tree and pondered life with him. That is, until grandma would peek outdoors, see us kids with pipes... and say, "Achhhh... don't fool with those old pipes - come inside and have a cup of coffee with me." So we would. LOL

They were a great old couple of German ancestory. ALL of us cousins would go and stay with them for a week or two in the summertime. Grandma was a marvelous cook. When they did not want us grandkids to know what they were talking about they always conversed in German so we could not understand. They were great people! Hard working, fun loving, all 'round great people.

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