Grandpa always said

[jrttoday]

Actually, he never said much unless he was regaling the lot of us with old hunting/fishing stories. Almost always boisterous and laughter filled; his hunting exploits sounded fishy and his fishing adventures were about hunting fish!! That's not completely true, he caught some nice fish in his day and the racks on the wall told a compelling story. And we were always entertained...
When he spoke to you directly, you'd better pay attention because it was simple truth. Though he was more of a hunter, he knew my passion is fishing and would tell me; "Do it all ya can while ya can, and enjoy it... because one day you won't be able to...".
That's been a lot of years ago he said that and as I remember his saying that, I'm seeing that day coming closer. Grandma would say, "the older you get, the longer the days the shorter the years..." - I'm seeing that, too.
Of all the people I've ever known, I miss them the most

 

[aspeck]

Nice tribute.

 

[littlerayray]

I was five when both my grand father's past away was really close to them and wish they were still around

 

[four winns 214]

My Aunt Virginia always said the older you get, the faster the time goes. She was right.

 

[jrttoday]

My Aunt Virginia always said the older you get, the faster the time goes. She was right.

yup! unless you're waiting on something!! I have no problem with patience; it's impatience that causes me all the trouble :lol:

 

[jrttoday]

On a visit to their Carolina (mostly tobacco) farm, amongst the cows, chickens, goats, a horse or two, hunting dogs and other dogs lol; there were always a gazillion cats! I was very young and wanted one of the new brood of kittens - had my eye on a beautiful calico.

Grandpa says, "the way to pick yours out is to just start calling out names until one of them comes to ya". That one is yours and that is his/her name. He didn't explain that I might get a male cat with a female name. That was a bit more than I could understand at the time!!

Anyway, that's how I've always named my pets; just call out names until they answer, repeat it until we are both convinced. It was my birthday 5.5yrs ago and I was fiberglassing and building this boat I now have when I heard a loud crash in my other garage. This is what I found
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and his name is Crappie, like the fish, but I swear sometimes he is just a crappy cat!!! :lol:[/URL]

 

[jrttoday]

Here is being crappy! ruining the finish on top of my old truck.
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[jrttoday]

I called out every name I could think of at least twice, then started saying stuff like Moose, Deer, Piggy, Bass, Pike, Musky...... then Crappie! huh... he came right away. Grandpa says, "let the animal pick his/her name". Works for me

 

[jrttoday]

And there's nothing like sleeping in an old feather bed, waking up to the smell of a thick block of streak o lean popping in a cast iron skillet... with link sausage, brown eggs, grits, coffee n good well water, toast or biscuits (both!), and knowing that you're going fishing with a Master!! And the rooster hasn't even crowed yet!

The three of us at the table and Grandma says, "you ain't fit to be seen in public looking like that! At least, go take a shower and use the unscented soap; wash your hair with it too. That way the skeeters, deer flies n such won't love ya so much". He said do as she says,and she was right!, I still won't go fishing without cleaning up like that.

When we got back, Grandpa took out some baking soda and made a paste with water. "Put this on the bug bites ya got", I didn't ask why, it just worked. Itching stopped almost right away! "If you have any chiggers, put it on that too. It'll kill 'em". WOW!!

"And that wart I saw on your thumb" He took a clove of garlic, chopped it up, squeezed some juice on it, and wrapped a bandage with little pieces of garlic under. "Keep it dry and leave until tomorrow (24hrs)". "Leave it alone and in a week or so, it'll fall off by itself". These old people are batting a 1,000!!!!