Thursday… Just stuff, and grandkids.

 Picture of the day

 The twins Stephen & Josh found grandpa's shoes!

BUT for now:

About nuts, I smiled at Myra’s comment about ‘green fingers’ i.e. stains from picking up and handling fallen nuts.

Once in Albany, GA (All-Benny is the local pronunciation). I was teaching classes in Naval Intelligence Handling. Behind our house was a beautiful Pecan tree. I was thrilled gathering nuts, however the next day as I got dressed, I noticed I had green/black hands they stood out like a sore thumb.  The students had a great time for a few days, joking and commenting on the contrast of my hands and my face plus the  White Uniform. OUCH! for the black students I became the Watermelon Man!

So Myra, I know exactly how you felt with those stained fingers and hands.

During our marriage and hearing some men talk concerning their wives; one statement I heard a few times,  I heard, “I just have to get away from her for a few days at times.” I had to comment so I would ask, “Then why in heck did you get married? The closer I am tomy girl, the better off I am.”  I spent many days separated, weekends, weeks and at times months, I couldn’t wait to get back and hated to think of the next separation coming up.  Just maybe I had had enough separations, LOL

I have said it many times; we started our marriage in a 26’ trailer.  We loved the closeness, got a lot of touching and kisses. LOL  I think that stuck with us. Today we sit here in a 36’ RV total size 300 sqft (In our house, the Bedroom is approx. 312 sqft, larger than this coach.) we are behind our 2800 sqft home and are very satisfied here. Everything is handy, I get much more sugar, and there is less to clean. LOL

She is the BEST, and we know we are fortunate to have got the right one at the start. She has followed me where ever I led and some of the places were odd that is for sure.

Our sons have given us some WONDERFUL grandchildren. They all have a great work ethic and are doing well. WE get to smile BIG seeing the great grands coming along, but NOTHING thrills as much as Grand kids did.

Above is Benjamin and Corey.  Corey (RIP) came into the family when Jack Jr married Carol.  We claimed him as OURS!

                                        Ben is our oldest blood kin Grandson, 

                                                        And then there was Sherece!

                                                               

Sherece, the only granddaughter, you could tell she was gonna be a beautician, Grandma says she is the BEST!....

Our sweet granddaughter Sherece said to me once, “Grandpa, isn’t she just the cutest thing?” speaking of her daughter, Stella.

“Yes, she is honey, she is a good one, but not as cute as YOU were!”  Our grands were the best, of course.

                        Here is Luke the last grand...

Luke, the youngest Grand with Janie (I have a good pic of Luke (as a kid) on my big tractor but cannot find the pic!)

            Then there was Mattthew Dillon  (believe it or not he is a special dad now and named his first son, Mavrick.

Matthew, I always loved this shot.  Below is Matt's first shave!

Grands are the best, right Chatty? (for you readers that don’t know, Chatty is busting out all over about a beautiful new granddaughter! Yeah, I know it is a GG, BUT we know that the G was practically her son. WE saw as he grew right here on bloggersville.)  

 

Nite Shipslog

PS. 

Thanks for stopping by the Shipslog.   I know I repeat myself a lot on this blog, but please just charge it off to my wife’s age. LOL