Other Mothers (the good kind, not the Neil Gaiman kind)

Everyone has (or should have) someone in their life like my Auntie D.  Auntie D is grandpappy's oldest daughter and is helping Mumsy with his companion care.  Without Auntie D, my childhood would not have been so awesome. Here's why:

• Never ending supply of Pepsi and M&M's
• Trips to Geauga Lake amusement park and Sea World in the summers
• Blasting the radio so we could all sing along in the Thunderbird
• Painting Ceramics together
• Making Christmas/Easter cookies and chocolates together
• Telling my Dad off when he treated me poorly
• Watching Mary Poppins and Bednobs and Broomsticks over and over again
• Letting me sleep in her room when Mr. Boogedy freaked me out

This shit scared the crap out of me as a kid, and somehow
we always managed to watch it at night after dinner.

Auntie D is awesome still and she keeps it real, just like me.  I can call her for advice day or night and she is always there to answer, even though Uncle Harley gets up at 4am or some such ungodly hour.

I hope someday when all my friends' children are grown that they'll think back about me with the same joyfulness as I do when I think about Auntie D and her wonderful husband Uncle Harley.

Just a taste of those summers riding to Geauga Lake

And here's what it was like when Uncle Harley was driving

Granpappy's Best Advice

Grandpappy told me that the best advice he was ever given was from his mother on his wedding day back in the 1950's.  She said, "Remember, your mother is a woman."

He said he had ups and downs in his marriage to Grandmammy Ruby, but he always remembered his mother's words to treat his wife with the greatest respect and love, just as he would his own mother.  Grandpappy and Grandmammy Ruby were married for over 40 years.

And in the twilight of her life, Grandpappy was a caregiver for his beloved wife.  Love comes in many forms, sometimes it's in the form of insulin injections at odd hours, or changing the dressing on a wound from a surgery, or finding her the latest romance novel from one of her favorite authors.

Grandpappy never remarried.  He told me once upon a time that he had found the best wife a man could ask for and there was no way any other woman could take her place.

Bloodsport was a movie they loved watching together. Grandpappy loved the action and Grandmammy loved the shirtless JCVD. Just my two cents, but I think having the same taste in movies also keeps a couple together.

Pro Joe Liberals to the Rescue

Miss Canada is going to have fun with these pictures I'm sure.  Buzz and Mr. Funnyface love trucks, any trucks that make noise and have flashing lights to be exact.

Miss Canada - Tell Mr. Funnyface that Ali had, basically, Mighty Machines, or whatever that show is from Canada with all the cool trucks (leave in comments, I'll link later), in her front yard!  Woohoo!  I am the coolest person in the world to a 3 year old...which oddly, is very similar to the mental age of @TDHurst.

@SheriffJoe_D has some fans at the Streetsboro PD, and Streetsboro FD.  So...if @RealSheriffJoe wants to do a fundraiser for this badass right here.  PM me on twitter.

Btw, they weren't just stopping by to chat about funny blogs and fake twitter accounts...they were actually here to convince grandpappy to go to the Dr.  at the VA.

So, in addition to trolling for jesus on the internets...I do it in real life too...but grandpappy would do the same for me.  I love that man.