Tag: grandpas

• Still Mourning…

  Friday I found myself at a funeral. It wasn’t for a family member thank goodness. For anyone who knows what my family has been through the past few months. More than one cousin, first and beyond the first cousin label. No this was even closer as far as proximity to my home. My family has…

  Garnetjewel

  June 8, 2026

  American Heritage, Bible Reflections, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  Church Family, conversations, emotions, Family, funeral, funeral parlor, grandpas, life, love, memories, mourning, neighbors, photos, preacher, smiles, writing

• Writing Prompt:

  Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why? Well this is an easy question for me to answer. When I was younger as a teenager I thought a lot about the past because of my Grandpas. Thinking about the future was still on my mind though. Growing up I always…

  Garnetjewel

  January 5, 2026

  Writing Prompt

  Adapting, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1808, effects, grandpas, groom, influences, past, situations, surgeries, wedding

• Writing Prompt:

  What brings a tear of joy to your face? A myriad of answers could answer such a question for me. The way my cousin talked about God our Father being our “Abba.” Watching young families at Sunday evening church. Fathers and daughters doing things together or Grandfathers and granddaughters. My niece loves getting to sit…

  Garnetjewel

  September 1, 2025

  Writing Prompt

  Abba, afternoons, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2048, daughters, fathers, granddaughters, grandpas, tears

• Writing Prompt

  What were your favorite TV shows growing up? There were several and I wrote about them in past writing prompts. There are two shows I don’t think I have written about specifically. One of them was brought back to mind on Sunday after watching the newest ‘Chicken Sisters’ hour that aired. David James Elliot guest…

  Garnetjewel

  August 26, 2025

  Writing Prompt

  dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2042, Family, favorite shows, grandpas, JAG

• Grandpa’s

  Two Saturdays ago Mom and I went to a baby shower. It was for a cousin and the paternal grandmother of this baby is my Dad’s first cousin. This was such a beautiful day and a wonderful celebration for these two families to welcome this baby before the birth. During this couple of hours I…

  Garnetjewel

  November 13, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family

  Baby Shower, candidate, celebrations, church, death, Election Day, Family, granddaughter, Grandpa, grandparents, grandpas, Home Depot, life, love, patriotic, presents, relationships, trump, Trump hat, understanding, voting

• Reagan the Politician

  Obviously I don’t remember very much about his two terms firsthand. As I mentioned the other day I was born on the day of his second Inauguration. Two big things had changed in the presidency and the policy of h inaugurations were done for me to share that special day with that special president. Firstly…

  Garnetjewel

  September 5, 2024

  American Heritage, Bible Reflections, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Uncategorized, Unique Prayers

  20th Amendment, April 30th, Barry Goldwater, caretakers, Communists, Democrat, enemy, freedom, generation, God’s purpose, Governor, grandpas, January 20th, KGB Agent, March 4th, Mikhail Gorbachev, Parents, politics, Reagan, Republican, SAG President, Soviet Union, Star Wars, The Great Communicator, The Red Scare, Washington Monument, West Portico, what-ifs, White House

• “Stolen Valor”

  Last Thursday was the day that news really began pouring out about the potential Vice Presidential nominee chosen for the Democrat ticket. The opposing Vice Presidential nominee, sitting Senator J.D Vance had even accused Walz of “stolen valor.” A major accusation thrown and major snafus made by the man accused of such a thing. Perhaps…

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  August 14, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, Modern American History

  21 gun salute, American staples, battle, ceremony, combat, conversations, death, disturbing, domestically, enlisting, forgotten, grandpas, history, humble, Korean Conflict, legendary history, Minnesota, National Guard, overseas, service, stolen valor, trust, white lies, World War II

• Projects Coming to Life

  The inspiration for getting back into my craft was just delivered last week. Talk about my projects coming to life. I was so excited to see this big guy on my way home from Sullivan one night last week. It was a surprise that put a smile on my face. It’s as beautiful as a…

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  August 2, 2024

  Spontaneity At It’s Best

  birthday, excitement, grandpas, helicopter, in progress, inspiration, pillowSullivan, projects, surprise, tractor, tractor ride

• Adapting To the RNC

  After watching the 2020 Republican Convention I was hooked. It was an amazing sight to observe even through the livestream at home. The Campaign’s slogan of reinvigorating our National Heritage hit me in all the right places. My Bachelors degree was Social Studies and history is a passion of mine. They way that last convention…

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  July 19, 2024

  American Heritage, Bible Reflections, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History, Musical Glory, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  Adapting, aunts, babysitting, connected, Convention, cousins, Democrats, donald-trump, enjoy, experiences, Family, funeral, God, grandpas, history, inspirational, livestream, moments, news, niece, observe, parking, politics, racists, reinvigorating, republicans, respected, RNC, Star Spangled Banner, trump, wisdom

• Fleeing For Our Lives…

  Mom and I enjoy walking. Thankfully we have gotten back up to a half an hour routine. Of course we do walk in the local cemetery. I have mentioned before it is where a lot of family and friends stones are standing tall. The reason we walk there is because it’s really just a nice…

  Garnetjewel

  July 2, 2024

  American Heritage, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  barking, calm, cemeteries, cemetery, Covid, death, dogs, Family, fleeing, Grandmas, grandpas, gravestones, highway, history, travel, unnerve, walkers, walking