Every day for lunch, pretty much, since I started working at EWAM four years ago I've gone and had lunch with my Pappaw. He's my great-grandfather and is so full of wisdom and life that I can only hope that when I reach my nineties I have half the spunk of him.
These small conversations and laughs we share over lunch each day are things that are slowly fleeting from my memory and as sad as it is I know he won't be here with me forever. Though his memory and all he has taught me will remain, it's these moments, the ones where we laugh or he lectures that I want to remember. It's this small thirty to forty minute time frame I share with him each day that I cherish so much.
Talking about his upcoming birthday... 'raises his hand and points finger around as if he's in a crowd' "Tell Everybody I Want Fertilizer!"
Starts going on about how I called him once and it hadn't snowed any the other night, then I called him back to check and see if any snow accumulated "and I went outside to look and everything was covered. Looked like a wagon full of the stuff had turned over."
He's my valentine tonight... I know, I'm super lucky... So I was trying to convince him since we are going to my Aunt's he should buy us all Bright Star... "You've done gone crazy. That snow froze your brain."
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