Grandma J's
- Pocket door
- Glass doorknobs
- Pirate ship on the clock in toy room (did I imagine that??)
- Rainbow floor rug
- Tiger's baseball stickers on the back of the door
- The puppies on the dresser
- Laundry chute
- Seashell nightlight
- Really ugly tree-branch comforter on front bedroom bed
- Coo-coo clock
- Some weird crochet character chip-clips (????)
- Creepy foot rug
- The smell of the basement
- "Window" going down the basement stairs
- Horse bookends
- Snoopy cologne bottle (which I now own)
- Grandpa's workshop/wood carvings
- Spoon collection
- Green and blue plastic cups which used to belong to Dad
- High chair with beads
- Plastic farm animals
- Pancakes
- Sesame Street plates
- Bucket of plastic army soldiers under toy room bed
- White headboard and butterfly comforter on toy room bed
- Boyscout lamp made from beer bottles
- Basement closet
- Grandma drawing an invisible line down the center of the bed (with barbed wire and poisonous snakes) so Kristen and I didn't kill each other during the night
- The lamppost picture-thing that used to flank the front door (gone now)
- The sound of cars driving past in the morning
- The Christmas stockings
- All the Christmas parties
- Grandpa -- Just everything about him, but mostly...
- "Cold hands, warm heart"
- Amanda the Panda
- His laugh
- Gave me dollar bills to buy sketch books to encourage me to draw
- The way he smelled
- Fish kisses
- That time at Ponderosa when he gave the waitress dollar bills every time she went by because she was cute and the "service was amazing"
- Being Santa
- The way he bossed Grandma around but in a lovey sort of way because everyone knew she was in charge
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