My grandpa had dentures. If you pulled on his ear he would make one pop out. The other ear made the other denture pop out. You could keep pulling on his ears and his dentures would come in and out. He liked scaring us. He would whistle really loud when you didn't know he was there.
He had a garden at his house. He buried small steel trash cans and stored apples in them, under his apple tree. I always thought that was neat because it just looked like a trash can lid on the ground, but when you picked it up there was a little can down about a foot and a half into the dirt.
I was very close with him. I loved spending time with him. When he died someone told me that it would just look like he was sleeping when I saw him at his funeral. I think I was eight at the time. After I saw his body I commented to someone that it didn't look like he was sleeping because "he sleeps on his side."
If he was your grandpa, what do you remember?
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ReplyDeleteFrom Lucretia Snijers:
ReplyDelete"Story about Grandpa...I cannot figure out how to comment on your blog.
Once when I was little, maybw 6 or 7, we were driving somewhere and I had to pee so bad. There was no where to pull over. I remember being told "hold on, just wait, we are trying to get somewhere for you to go to the bathroom"....something like that. I have no idea who was driving or who else was in the car. All I know is Grandpa and I were in the backseat. I started to cry because I just had to go so bad. Grandpa started crying too and told he knew how I felt. He said something like "this happens to me sometimes too." He was so wonderful about making you feel ok about everything you did."