From Thursday flu like systems to just having a throat on fire, not sleeping, and just a bit warm, I have no energy. I do have a small list of things to get done. I am keeping on top of the dishes and have swept the floor. I do plan on doing a load of wash. Fingers crossed! The other major project is for my mom for mother's day. She wants a shutterfly book of her parents. A big task! There are very few pictures and finding the pack pictures of my grandma as private nurse to a circus person is being allusive.
This set of my grandparents have been gone a long while. I do not know my grandpa because he died a year after I was born. However, I was his favorite and I love personal stories. Grandpa L was a boiler maker and he worked on the Battleship New Jersey and the USS Missouri. Before that he worked on a railway and before that drove a grocery truck around town. His parents died when he was still at home. They did in a horse carriage accident over a bridge in a storm. Grandpa L married his first wife who died while in childbirth of my Aunt Janet. Then Grandpa L married my grandma. I have the chest of drawers that he refurnished and strengthen with steel for my mom. He loved his caps and cigars. A famously funny that my mom loves to tell is how Grandpa L liked to take care of his cars. He made sure they were spotless. One day while on a drive, he decides to spit out the window. Well, the spotless window was super clean and was rolled up. My mom got into a bit of trouble for laughing at her daddy's mishap on the window!
Thought I would drop a few lines before I go off to shutterfly...
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