PENNY'S FROM HEAVEN

THE MONTH OF OCT. reminds me of penny's - he would always say never be to lazy to bend over to pick up a penny. school yards the high school he worked at as a janitor the kids would pitch money at the wall they left the penny's and would laugh at him for picking them up, childhood he was there for me as a kid in so many ways. When he died all the penny's were in old fashion 5 gal. milk cans. The smell of a pipe, he would hind the pipe under the house wasn't suppost to smoke. The impish look in his eyes, he did things like messing up your hair just for the fun of it. And a little red hair girl a goose and the pain on his face when the goose got her, he loved kids. A gypsy costume, what i was wearing when i found out that he died. a front porch with a swing, were we spent time talking and watching him in the garden. there is a great pic of him with a giant cabbage from the harvest. He was an example of a father, step father, husband he married a young woman that had had a baby out of wedlock she was 14 yrs old. He had known the heart ach and the lose of a child a son 3 years old. Penicillin is what the hospital gave him that lead to his funeral.He was a man with a big heart,a fisherman. Suspenders were his trade mark, the one thing i asked to have when he died. the month OCT. reminds me of all these things and more, rail roads and a railroad pocket watch. A old truck, a tall thin man, someone that would give you the shirt of his back. I can still hear the laugh when he told the story of snapping the head off of a copper head snake, as if it had just happened when it went through the kitchen window into the dish water wear his wife was doing the dishes. The two side tables in my home that mean more to me then any other pieces of furniture, because of the lessons i still learn from them, one mans trash is another treasure. These are some of the thing that have touched my heart they are memories of a loved one who died at the end of this month when i was 14 years old. I have not been back to his grave, i wore a off white dress and took a single white rose that day as a symbol of my love. I still hold him very dear to my heart, caring with me the lessons only a grandpa could give. I am looking forward to seeing him when my work is done, i pray to be used in the same why, he still touches life's. My GRANDPA was a special man i can only hope you now someone like him in your life time i was and am still blessed. i love you grandpa THANK YOU LORD for the memories.