Thursday, February 11, 2021

Nostalgia Part I : Grandma's House

 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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