My grandfather passed away today. We knew it was coming - he broke his hip Wednesday night, and he hasn't been communicative since. I drove down yesterday to see him, he was just lying in bed, no sign of recognition, couldn't talk.
Yeah, I was poking around the farm a bit with my uncle Bill yesterday. It's probably going to be donated to the fire department for use as a controlled burn - the house is over 150 years old, and it's in bad shape. Anyway, I found this old book of photographs in a drawer above his desk, leather bound with bindings, I guess it was a photo-album of one of his older brothers (he had sixteen brothers and sisters). The photos are black and white (duh) and only a couple of inches big. Some of them are hard to make out. One of the early photos is of a young man standing by a calf (no jokes, sickos) - it reads, "George & Farm Buddy - 1929."
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Sorry, man. All my grandparents are dead, so I know what that's like X4.
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It was cool you went to see him, not being able too can make one have regrets for a long time afterwards.
It is also cool that he kept things like that, you can study your geneology in detail with that kind of treasure trove.
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