I'm writing this so you'll all hassle me about editing Grandpa's pictures. I've been meaning to start up again and hopefully saying it out loud to you all (so to speak) will get me off of my lazy butt.
I'm going to start right now. Really.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
New links
Hi family,
I put more links to the side. They are the family blogs that I have. So now everyone who comes here can have easy access to the blogs. If you have a blog and you want the family to be able to read it, let me know and I will add that address. I also updated the background for an "outdoor" theme. Hope everyone enjoys it! Linda, I am still wanting to help you get hooked up on this so you can post. Please let me know when or how to help you.
I put more links to the side. They are the family blogs that I have. So now everyone who comes here can have easy access to the blogs. If you have a blog and you want the family to be able to read it, let me know and I will add that address. I also updated the background for an "outdoor" theme. Hope everyone enjoys it! Linda, I am still wanting to help you get hooked up on this so you can post. Please let me know when or how to help you.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Happy Birthday, Grandpa
I am reposting what I put on my personal blog...
Today is Grandpa Rue's birthday. He would have been 79. It is the "first" birthday since he has passed. Every year since I have been on my own I have called him to tell him Happy Birthday. I would wait for him to pick up that phone and hear him say "Oh my stars!" and then when I would tell him Happy Birthday, he would say "how did you know it was my birthday" even though it seems we all knew it was his birthday. It was always around Stake Conference and we always tried to have a family BBQ on the deck. I have thought of Grandpa all day today. Mom and Julie even said on grandpas blog that he would always remind everyone that it was around the first day of spring and growing up, that meant he could take off his undershirt. Well, it didn't feel like spring today. It has been snowing! I hope Grandpa has been enjoying his birthday today. I've been thinking of him all day! I love you grandpa! Always and forever!
Today is Grandpa Rue's birthday. He would have been 79. It is the "first" birthday since he has passed. Every year since I have been on my own I have called him to tell him Happy Birthday. I would wait for him to pick up that phone and hear him say "Oh my stars!" and then when I would tell him Happy Birthday, he would say "how did you know it was my birthday" even though it seems we all knew it was his birthday. It was always around Stake Conference and we always tried to have a family BBQ on the deck. I have thought of Grandpa all day today. Mom and Julie even said on grandpas blog that he would always remind everyone that it was around the first day of spring and growing up, that meant he could take off his undershirt. Well, it didn't feel like spring today. It has been snowing! I hope Grandpa has been enjoying his birthday today. I've been thinking of him all day! I love you grandpa! Always and forever!
A Gift
A birthday gift for Dad. I don't remember a birthday gift I gave him, but I do remember a Christmas gift. One year when we talked about what we wanted for Christmas, Dad said he just wanted a rake. A good old garden rake. He already had one, but that was his way of saying he didn't really need anything big. He kept saying he hoped he got a rake for Christmas. So I went to "Jones' Hardware Store" and bought a rake for him. But how do you wrap up a rake? I wanted him to have a gift he could unwrap. Because he was making such a big deal out of this rake he was wishing for, I wanted to make it "extra special" for him to unwrap. I took the newspaper and torn it into little thin strips and wrapped the strips around the tines of the rake, taping it up very carefully. Then I wrapped the strips around all the little parts of the rake, and around the handle. Then tied a big bow around the handle and put it in back of the tree, but where it was in full sight of everyone. It looked just like........a rake wrapped up in strips of paper. You didn't need an imagination of any kind. I didn't say anything at all about it, but waited to see what he did when he saw it. He came into the room and saw that rake leaning up against the wall and said something to the effect "Oh, may! Look! A present for me. I wonder what it is?" Then he kept guessing things like "a bread box?" "a hammer?" Very obviously not it. He kept this up for a long time. When Christmas morning came he was still pretending that he couldn't guess what the gift was. He sat there and wrapped every little strip of paper until he could "see" his gift! He sure did enjoy making us all laugh about his rake. He reminded me of it many times when he went out to rake his garden. He always got a kick out of that rake. Many times he tell me he didn't want to wish for a rake because he just might get it and have to unwrap it.
Happy Birthday, Dad! I hope you are enjoying a great time on your special day this year!
Happy Birthday, Dad! I hope you are enjoying a great time on your special day this year!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
A Few Memories
Dad's/Grandpa's Birthday is coming up and I've been wanting to get these on here for his birthday.
After mom/Grandma died, it left me at home alone with Grandpa. He was a busy man, building new schools and the courthouse and the Sheriff's office and remodeling the courthouse. This took him out of town often, talking to architects, touring other new schools in the state, meetings and well, you get the idea. Well, many times I went with on these excursions and many of them were over night trips where we got a hotel room.
One summer, Grandpa, Linda and I went on a vacation to San Fransisco and up the coast to Bandon, OR where Grandpa Ware and Aunt Maree went on their mission. And when I was a Senior, Grandpa and I went to Alaska.
So . . . there were lots of stays in hotels. Sometimes, in some hotel bathrooms, there is a strip of paper over the toilet seat which the guest removes and throws away. Well, Grandpa always thought it was funny to carefully remove the strip of paper and set it somewhere and then when we were ready to check out he would carefully put it back across the toilet. He always thought it would be funny to see the maid as she realized someone had used the room but never used the toilet.
Also, the little triangles folded on the end of the toilet paper . . . he would refold those little triangles too. Every time I see the pointed end of toilet paper in a hotel bathroom or see the strip of paper across the toilet I think of Grandpa. And what is weird, I never think of it again until the next time I check into a hotel room.
Since Grandpa has died, I've been in several hotel rooms and each time I think of him and tell myself that I've got to write that down. So there it is . . . Grandpa was a little quirky.
Another memory . . . he polished his shoes often. He had his shoe polish down in the junk room and he would go out in the hole and put his foot up on the stump and polish. He always had shiny shoes.
When I was in high school, there was a store in Utah called "Castletons." It was a really nice store, kind of like ZCMI. There was a commercial shown on TV advertising Castletons and Grandpa did not like it. It showed a man in a dentist chair with wide eyes looking like he was in pain and very scared and the dentist drilling on him with this devilish look on his face.
Well, you all know Grandpa. Yup, he wrote them a letter, telling them that as an adult man, who has not been to the dentist for many years because of a traumatic experience as a child, they should not have a commercial like that. They are scaring children and making them afraid of the dentist. Castletons sent Grandpa a letter and thanked him for his and wanted him to know that they would be pulling that commercial off the air.
Grandpa stood by his convictions. He had a strong of opinion of what was right and what was wrong and he didn't let people make that determination for him.
And also, when he was a little boy he wore an undershirt all winter long. On his birthday which is always near the first day of spring, he was able to take his undershirt off. He looked forward to taking that undershirt off more than he looked forward to his birthday.
Happy Birthday Dad.
After mom/Grandma died, it left me at home alone with Grandpa. He was a busy man, building new schools and the courthouse and the Sheriff's office and remodeling the courthouse. This took him out of town often, talking to architects, touring other new schools in the state, meetings and well, you get the idea. Well, many times I went with on these excursions and many of them were over night trips where we got a hotel room.
One summer, Grandpa, Linda and I went on a vacation to San Fransisco and up the coast to Bandon, OR where Grandpa Ware and Aunt Maree went on their mission. And when I was a Senior, Grandpa and I went to Alaska.
So . . . there were lots of stays in hotels. Sometimes, in some hotel bathrooms, there is a strip of paper over the toilet seat which the guest removes and throws away. Well, Grandpa always thought it was funny to carefully remove the strip of paper and set it somewhere and then when we were ready to check out he would carefully put it back across the toilet. He always thought it would be funny to see the maid as she realized someone had used the room but never used the toilet.
Also, the little triangles folded on the end of the toilet paper . . . he would refold those little triangles too. Every time I see the pointed end of toilet paper in a hotel bathroom or see the strip of paper across the toilet I think of Grandpa. And what is weird, I never think of it again until the next time I check into a hotel room.
Since Grandpa has died, I've been in several hotel rooms and each time I think of him and tell myself that I've got to write that down. So there it is . . . Grandpa was a little quirky.
Another memory . . . he polished his shoes often. He had his shoe polish down in the junk room and he would go out in the hole and put his foot up on the stump and polish. He always had shiny shoes.
When I was in high school, there was a store in Utah called "Castletons." It was a really nice store, kind of like ZCMI. There was a commercial shown on TV advertising Castletons and Grandpa did not like it. It showed a man in a dentist chair with wide eyes looking like he was in pain and very scared and the dentist drilling on him with this devilish look on his face.
Well, you all know Grandpa. Yup, he wrote them a letter, telling them that as an adult man, who has not been to the dentist for many years because of a traumatic experience as a child, they should not have a commercial like that. They are scaring children and making them afraid of the dentist. Castletons sent Grandpa a letter and thanked him for his and wanted him to know that they would be pulling that commercial off the air.
Grandpa stood by his convictions. He had a strong of opinion of what was right and what was wrong and he didn't let people make that determination for him.
And also, when he was a little boy he wore an undershirt all winter long. On his birthday which is always near the first day of spring, he was able to take his undershirt off. He looked forward to taking that undershirt off more than he looked forward to his birthday.
Happy Birthday Dad.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Grandpa birthday
I guess we are having a get-together for grandpa's birthday on Saturday March 20. If anyone knows anymore details please feel free to put it up here!
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