Happy Birthday Papa!
Today is the birthday of my granddad Chester, A/K/A Papa. Although he's been gone for many years, so many wonderful memories remain.
- the time I shot one of his robins with a BB-gun, and he made it clear that I needed to shoot only sparrows
- the time I backed Grandma Jojo's big Thunderbird (A/K/A "Thunderchicken") out of the garage and hooked the front bumper on the garage door track, pulling part of the garage out of whack
- spending nights at Papa and JoJo's house... devotions before retiring upstairs for the night; glasses of milk, juice AND water for breakfast; getting lift to school rather than having to ride bus
- being teamed up with Papa as we dug up the annual crop of potatoes
- riding along with him on tractors and lawn mowers
- playing games of pool, always amazed at how Papa could make shots with the cue stick behind his back
- borrowing his "Oral Roberts reads the Bible" cassette tapes
- him saving all sorts of "junk mail stuff" for me, including calendars, stickers and seed catalogs
- years and years of Thanksgivings, Christmases and Easters
- riding in the front seat between Papa & Dad, as we headed off for a family meal (Mom, Jojo and Mike in backseat)
- him making the trek to Delavan for Corrie and my wedding
Happy birthday Papa!
MH
numbers 6:24-26
- the time I shot one of his robins with a BB-gun, and he made it clear that I needed to shoot only sparrows
- the time I backed Grandma Jojo's big Thunderbird (A/K/A "Thunderchicken") out of the garage and hooked the front bumper on the garage door track, pulling part of the garage out of whack
- spending nights at Papa and JoJo's house... devotions before retiring upstairs for the night; glasses of milk, juice AND water for breakfast; getting lift to school rather than having to ride bus
- being teamed up with Papa as we dug up the annual crop of potatoes
- riding along with him on tractors and lawn mowers
- playing games of pool, always amazed at how Papa could make shots with the cue stick behind his back
- borrowing his "Oral Roberts reads the Bible" cassette tapes
- him saving all sorts of "junk mail stuff" for me, including calendars, stickers and seed catalogs
- years and years of Thanksgivings, Christmases and Easters
- riding in the front seat between Papa & Dad, as we headed off for a family meal (Mom, Jojo and Mike in backseat)
- him making the trek to Delavan for Corrie and my wedding
Happy birthday Papa!
MH
numbers 6:24-26
