Hi Teresa,
We said goodbye to my grandmother, Susie, this past weekend. She was 100 years old when she died on Wednesday. What an amazing life she led! When she was a little girl, she moved with her family from Missouri to Arkansas in a covered wagon. She never drove a car and she thought the whole "man on the moon thing" was just something they made up in Hollywood. I guess when you see that much change in one lifetime there is a cut off point as to what you can believe!
This is a picture of her taken about 15 years ago with my niece and nephew.
I just remembered something that I hadn't thought about recently. I can remember my grandmother sitting at an old sewing machine and sewing when I was a child. It was one of those that you had to pump with your foot on a pedal to make the needle go up and down. Can you imagine? She made aprons and pot holders and also quilted by hand. And she had a huge garden that encompassed her entire yard - very old fashioned with rocks that she gathered for borders. She had a compost pile in the corner of the vegetable patch. She used to send me out to dump the coffee can full of peach peelings, coffee grounds, etc. when I was visiting. And she would wear a huge bonnet on her head when she worked outside - I'm pretty sure she sewed those herself too. She was green before green was cool. We used to fuss at her for saving all the wrapping paper every Christmas. And I can clearly remember getting more than one Christmas present in a cereal box wrapped in some previous year's paper. Go Grandma – I’ll miss you!
Bagette April
2 comments:
A very nice tribute. It was a pleasure to read about her.
Lee
You know, I never thought about this before. My grandparents also raised a garden, re-used everything, and my granny made the most beautiful handmade quilts you've ever seen out of her old dresses. *in fact, I keep one of them on the couch now just for snuggling under* They managed to survive the post depression era and beyond on very little money and yet they never seemed to do without anything-I think it's just dawned on me WHY.
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