Tuesday, September 4, 2012

never you mind, they are mine.


Hi Dee,


Well today I'm going to try and give you a few  stories, they are going to be short ones so maybe after you get a few  you can blog them or not.

Usually I do my thinking early in the morning when I get up between 4---7 and I'm sitting in my recliner waiting for my pain med to ease my back and all my other arthritic pains.

I guess I need to start (by telling my age) - 80 next year and my sister is 83. Betty will be in a lot of my stories.  My mom and dad were called fruit tramps.  They used to go from Watsonville to Yuma every year and work in the lettuce. Where they got that name from I'll never know. I don't ever remember them working in fruit. So our summers were in Arizona and then back to Watsonville and school, we were little but I can still remember it. While visiting my sister, Betty, yesterday she said, "do you remember the big milkshakes mom and dad used to buy us after they got off work?" Do I ever! We had to walk a couple of blocks but it was so worth it. They were in big glasses, thick and so good. It's funny how some memories are hard to forget.  Maybe just maybe, Betty and I are both on the heavy side and it started then. 

We both had a doctors appointment yesterday and Betty doesn't drive anymore and I still do.  We then go out to lunch.  Nothing fancy we either have a hamburger, chicken pot pie, or a fish dinner. We then take a trip to the Dollar Tree for our goodies for the week - you know things like chips, cookies, candy  for grampas candy jar.  We have even found flower pots there and we both like playing in the dirt so we are happy. We do most of our playing outside sitting down but who cares-- we are doing what we like to do. I have a picnic table outside that is covered with plants and grampa keeps asking me what I'm going to do with them. I just tell him "never you mind they are mine."   

Honey enough for now. Love you. Grama

24 comments:

  1. Fruit tramps? I've never heard that story before mom but I do remember you talking about the milkshakes!

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  2. Yay for blogging! Your family is so lucky to have your stories as well as the rest of us who get the opportunity to read them!

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  3. Yeah Grama! So excited to read all your stories!!!

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  4. I think it is wonderful that you are blogging. Your family will appreciate every bit of it!

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  5. Excited as everyone else to hear your stories! I've been to scared to start a blog myself, but I just might now.

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  6. Looking forward to more grama stories! I've bookmarked Go Grama.

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  7. Reading your stories, I can almost picture my own grandma telling me her stories. Love it! Go Grama!!!

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  8. Oh my! This makes me so happy! And so proud to be the daughter and mother sandwiched in between this blogging team! Keep those stories coming mom!

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  9. Love it! Keep these blogs coming!

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  10. So happy you're sharing your stories with us!Can't wait to read more.

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  11. Hope your blog brings much joy to you and all those that read it. Amy T.

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  12. i love this! can't wait to hear more stories! thank you so much for sharing!

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  13. YAY! So glad you decided to do this! Looking forward to reading your tales. :)

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  14. Wonderful! I am looking forward to reading your stories. :-)
    Edith from the Netherlands

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  15. Looks like you've gone global Grama !! Waving hi from Melbourne, Australia :)

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  16. Congratulations!!! I found your blog through Erin and am so looking forward to reading your stories and your prospective on life.

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  17. how fun! can't wait to read more stories!

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  18. Congratulations on blogging, I am looking forward to reading your stories also. Julie from the UK xxx

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  19. Hi Grama! :D Congratulation on your nice blog, and I am looking forward to reading more on your stories. I get to know of your blog through your granddaughter's PigBear! Have a blessed day!

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  20. I love it! Howdy from HOT Texas! You are an inspiration! I'm so close to 50 that I can see the bright light on that train comin' own the track. I have some friends who just shake their heads every time I try something new, start a new project, etc. I take piano lessons, sing in the church choir, garden, stamp my own cards, go to the gym, dabble in photography (hence my stalking of your granddaughter!) nd I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. You are proof to keep on going! Go Grama Go!

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