Tag: Grandpa

• A Week of Observing Grandpa’s Footsteps

  Each day this past week on Facebook I shared a photo, some thoughts or information like the Operations Map. I have shared stuff before, but not quite like this on Facebook for an entire week. I finally understand the idea of the Facebook ‘Story’. The response was pretty neat to see from day to day.…

  Garnetjewel

  July 24, 2023

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  brief, each day, Family, freedom, friends, Grandpa, Leo, letters, maps, obwervations, photos, POW, stories

• Summer School With a Twist

  By the timestamp on my paperwork for my class, my one summer course was taken in 2005. This was a very trying and overwhelming year for our family. It was the year of Firsts. The first planting season without Grandpa all of the firsts you can think of we went through all of them. I…

  Garnetjewel

  July 12, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, Modern American History

  college, cousins, deterrents, Family, firsts, Grandpa, OCU, summer school

• The 2nd Edition: The Hands of My Fathers

  Ironically, I had about the same amount of time with Great-Grandpa Arla as I did Grandpa Leo. There was only about a month, give or take a few days up to a week, in between their deaths. It seems that I remember his death just about 10 days after my birthday which would be somewhere…

  Garnetjewel

  June 21, 2023

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Family

  death, gardens, Grandpa, love, Sunday School, superintendent, tomatoes, writing

• For Such A Time As This

  For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Esther 4:14 Have you ever been in…

  Garnetjewel

  June 14, 2023

  Family, God’s Timing, Uncategorized

  dad, Esther, Family, Grandpa, nowhere, time, trajectory

• A Deep Love

  February 3rd, 2020 Three years have passed since I created this series. I needed to arrange all of my thoughts from that time and sort out my feelings from the facts a little bit. Now in June of 2023, it has been 18 years since Grandpa Freddy went home to be with the Lord. I…

  Garnetjewel

  June 12, 2023

  American Heritage, Family

  connection, Freddy, Grandpa, healthy, love