Now that a dumpster is on the premises makes this phase even more stark. No one knows what will happen and who will get the house yet. Before we get to that step we need to clean up the house and find the little treasures of our grandparents that have trinkled down through the family lines.
I told myself I wasn’t going to look for anything more, but I went with my parents this morning. We came home with a loaded back seat, mostly stuff I found and couldn’t leave for the sale. I mean I looked into one book and it had Grandpa Arla’s name on it with several notes on his favorite poems or most used poems. A paper that was inside this book said ‘The Teen Commandments’ a very well written list for every child to read and think about.
Then we found some old glasses that were most like Grandpa Arla’s and Grandma Doris’s. I had a chance to have Uncle Leonard’s sunglasses and wasn’t sure what I would do with them now I wish I hadn’t overlooked them. So I decided not to make the same decision twice. Plus I have the perfect place for them.
Then I found another album of Grandpa Arla’s he was a good friend of a man I got to know from Church. Bob McClure, was such an amazing storyteller and I can still remember sitting in his front room with him and his Peaches. He lovingly called his wife Peaches one of the things I learned when I interviewed him and I kept going back to ask him questions. Goodness I miss them, he was also the Greene County Sheriff and a Sharpshooter. He showed me his award room; it was literally filled with all of his awards for being an amazing sharpshooter.
Today, I found an article Grandpa kept of Bob in the Terre Haute newspaper. It took me back a bit so many memories and it was awesome learning that one of our good Church friends just happened to be one of my Great-Grandpa’s good friends too.
Jewells of Thought 
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