My Grandma memories

My best memories are of the farm too. It was fun visiting after they moved to Carroll but not the same as spending time on the farm. There was so much we could get into out there! I remember poking around in the "boys" rooms too. They had model cars they had made sitting on shelves or something and we LOVED playing with those (I recall them being tan in color?) I hope we didn't break any of that stuff for Leo or Marvin or whoever made them. (If we did, I offer my profound apologies for being a brat.) I also recall a big closet at the top of the stairs where Grandma kept toys. At the end of our visit we were supposed to clean up all the toys we'd taken out of there and put everything away. It took us forever to clean up because we weren't done playing yet and we wanted to stay at Grandma's house.

I recall spending a few summer nights overnight at the farm when Elaine was still in high school. Donna and I somehow got the priviledge of sleeping in Elaine's bed with her and we drove her crazy with our giggling and nonsense late into the night. We called her "Lainey-bony". Again, my apologies to Elaine this time. I truly have outgrown my antics. (Donna hasn't, but we'll talk about that another time.) Elaine was just a cool teenager and we looked up to her. I remember the dog named "Ralph" whose toenails clicked on the hard floors in the house, and wasn't there a semi-tame squirrel that would eat out of Elaine's hand but us kids were told to leave it alone or it might bite. Elaine also took us for walks past the "haunted house" up the road!!

I also have memories of you aunts and uncles when you were fairly newly married. I remember both Fran and Diane being pregnant. A lot. Often at the same time. Which meant there was usually new little baby cousins to coddle over. Rodney was a cute cute baby- such a doll. And little David called his dad "Norman" instead of Dad one day, which cracked us up. Well, I could go on and on. What great memories to have.