Grandma Visits

Last week, my Grandmother and my Aunt came down for DS 1's graduation from High School. I realized that I haven't posted to this blog for a while, and I wanted to post a HUGE thank you to them both. Grandma was really adament about being here. I appreciate that. When I named this blog "Grandma's Treasures", I intended to share all the things that I have that were Grandma's or little things I had "uncovered" in her house. I decided this week that one of Grandma's biggest treasures is her family.

Grandma has been interested in geneology for as long as I can remember. She knows the importance of family history. More importantly, though, she knows the importance of making a family history for those in generations after hers. She wants to make memories whenever she can.

I love that about her. I hope that I have learned some of that from her. And I hope that I pass some of that along to my kids to carry on into their own families.

Thank you Grandma and Aunt Sandy for coming to visit and making a memory!!

Monday Memories

As Easter passed yesterday, I was thinking about growing up and my Grandparents.

I don't really remember them being around much at this time of the year as I was a youngster---since we lived in Florida and they lived in Ohio. I didn't think I'd really have a memory to share...but then I dug into my memory bank a bit more and here is what I found....

I DO remember getting together as my older boys were babies and they were living in a town near us. I have a sweet picture of Grandma Easter Egg hunting with ds 2 when he was only a few months old. He had just gotten over Chicken Pox...she is holding his pudgy body and showing him the eggs up at the River.

I also remember them coming over to church a few times in the years before we left Tampa. The kids loved to hunt eggs and visit with their grandparents....The last Easter that Grandpa was alive, they came over to the house for Easter dinner. DS 4 was only a few weeks old. The older boys got silly string in their baskets and Uncle G. was showing them how to fight with it. They had quite a string war in my front yard. I can still hear Grandpa laughing over it. He loved to watch the boys play and have fun. It brought him great joy.

Yes, that was a precious time. I don't think any of us realized just how much we should have savored the day. We didn't realize that in a few short months he would be gone.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of this amazing man. He was a blessing to each of us. I am grateful that I DO have Easter memories that I shall cherish with both of my Grandparents. And my children do too. What a treasure.

Thursday Again

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Thirteen Foods GRANDMA made 1. The moistest (is that a word) chocolate cake ever! 2. Pumpkin pie 3. Pudding -- Chocolate 4. Beef and Noodles 5. Chili 6. Cherry Pie 7. Pecan Pie 8. Mousse 9. Jello salad (the green kind) 10. Sloppy Joes 11. Sugar Cookies 12. Corn pudding 13. Meatloaf Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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Thirteen Things we did at GRANDMA'S HOUSE

1. Played The Uncle Wiggly game and Candy Land
2. Chewed the gum that looked like cigarettes (in addition to Teaberry that I mentioned last week)
3. Watched Hee Haw and Lassie
4. Watched Wonderful World of Disney and Lawrence Welk
5. Watched the grown-ups drink their coffee
6. Played tag and hide-and-go-seek
7. Dug up flowers and grass (probably when we weren't supposed to)
8. Played Parchesi on a homemade board with marbles
9. Colored in coloring books
10. Played games on the big front porch
11. Picked dandelions to see if we "liked butter" or not
12. Helped roll out noodles for beef and noodles
13. Drank our drinks in aluminum cups that kept things SO COLD!
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Thirteen Things about Grandma's House in the Spring



1. Lunch on Sunday afternoons with all the cousins, aunts, and uncles
2. Picking "flowers" aka weeds and Grandma putting them in a cup for us
3. Teaberry Gum (not necessarily Spring---but a memory nonetheless)
4. Ping Pong Guns
5. The Porch Swing
6. Soft Grass
7. Easter baskets hanging in the tree
8. Easter egg hunts with all the cousins
9. The peddle cars and trikes
10. The porch
11. The "chair" where we sat on time out
12. Grandma's paintings in the corner
13. Beef and Noodles (I'm sure we had them year round..but I am SURE we also had them in Spring!




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These "clickers" were also found at Grandma's. They sit in my shadow box. One is from a Gas Station SOHIO and the other appears to have a Mardi Gras theme to it. I don't think she explained where they came from or if she knows. I just thought they were interesting because they are still all metal.

It's the Little Things....

The photos below are from my shadow box. I purchased the printers trays for $5 each about 18 years ago. I love these trays. I still have two of them. I think my Mom has one or two and I think Grandma and Grandpa might have had one. Anyway, I love the things that we put in them...they each have their own little story.
This one is a little hard to see, but it says Happy Holidays. It is a small metal pill box.
The one with the cardinals on it, is like the one above it...a small metal pill box.
The wooden container is called "Junkett" (I think that's how you spell it). Grandma told me it was what cooks used to thicken up sauces and such--kind of like corn starch. I am still blown away by how small it is...only about three inches tall and very small in diameter...it's hard to picture how much they would have used.
This photo is very blury...but it is a "key" I think to a heater. It is very heavy and says, "Columbus OH" on it.

Sewing Notions

This is an old Rick Rack packet. Grandma said it was her Mother's. She ordered it from the Sears and Roebuck Catalog. There is white small rick rack inside.

I discovered this little "treasure" tucked inside an old book that was in Grandma's house. The pamphlet is an "ad" for Insurance. On the left inside flap, it says: "About 33,000 people are killed in Motor Vehicle Accidents each year...One Person Killed every sixteen minutes. Over a third of these Fatalitities are PEDESTRIANS..."

The strip that is diagonal says: "If you WALK or RIDE You Need Life & Casualty Automobile Accident Insurance"

And the box at the bottom left says: "Worse than War: Almost 100,000 more people have lost thier lives in motor vehicle accidents in the last 10 years than were killed in all the Ars in which the United States has taken part."

The right inside flap is two "Mercurochome Bandages" for "Protection Against Infection".

This is the front of the pamphlet. I did not photograph the back cover, but thought I'd share it here:

Protection Everyone Should Own

For less than a Penny a Day

You can own a little Life and Casualty Travel and Pedestrian Accident policy
which pays for the loss of:

Life.............................................$1,000.00

Both Hands.................................1,000.00

Both Feet....................................1,000.00

Sight of Both Eyes.....................1,000.00

One Hand, One Foot.................1,000.00

One Hand, Sight of One Eye....1,000.00

One Foot, Sight of One Eye......1,000.00

Either Hand..................................500.00

Either Foot...................................500.00

Sight of Either Eye.....................500.00

Provided such loss occurs in accordance with the terms and provisions of the
policy.

I'm not sure the date of this...although I would guess in the 1940's. I CAN tell you that I am glad I wasn't an insurance agent back then!! ;-)

Tulips, Oil Cans, and Glasses

This shelf has a couple of things that came from Grandma AND Grandpa. The tulips were made for me by Grandpa around 1995 or 96. They had some like it in their plants in Spring Hill and I commented about tulips being my favorite flower. The next visit, he brought me these tulips that he had made for me.

The glasses were given to me by Grandma. We found them when we were cleaning out her house. I can't remember whose they were and why she still had them. They are neat, though.

The oil can is something that Don and I got at an auction one time. I am not sure its story...but it is old and I thought it had "character".

Another Treasure

A few years back, Grandma asked us to look at things in her house that we might want someday and put our names on the back. This was something that I "wanted"...I always loved this picture that she painted. On the last Christmas that Grandpa was here, I received this from them for Christmas. I love it and was so happy to get it.

I am hoping that she will add to the story of it.

:-)

More Treasures...

Here is a painting that Grandma gave me several years ago. We were visiting her house in Spring Hill and she was showing me some of her craft room...she told me she didn't like this painting. Well...being an apple person...I told her it would be perfect in my kitchen. And, in my opinion, it is!!

Here are photos and the descriptions that I have so far

1. This is the stand that Grandpa Curt Callahan made. He made it sometime before I met Grandpa Callahan. It used to be natural wood..but Grandma Verna Callahan painted it the white color....Grandpa Allen callahan and Aunt Rachel said she painted everything she could get a paint brush to...no matter what. I think we are safe in saying that it was made in a bout 1935, in Richwood Ohio. He used for his tobacco "things"..His cigarette papers, his tobacco, and the Cigarette Roller that rolled his cigarettes...Don't know where that got to...I think maybe Aunt Rachel had it at one time. I got it when Grandma Callahan died in 1962. I used it in my kitchen in Mt. Gilead Ohio....there was a place beside the stove and sink. It fit just right there....by the inside back porch door. I usually kept my sugar, flour, salt, etc..there...Baking materials...etc.

2. The Cow Drinking mug....Grandpa and I bought that during one of his travels that he took me with him.....He started traveling in 1952.....I worked, so couldn't go as often as I would have liked....so sometimes I just got some time off.....OR vacation time to go with him...Went with him to Mexico, Louisiana, Texas, Canada, Missouri, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, N. and S. Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Georgia, New York, Indiana, Illinois, and probably many more. I met a lot of his working friends, from the owners of the business, to the working people in the plant...and it was interesting, and fun. One time we were traveling in Oklahoma and heard of a funnel cloud that was heading in our direction.....a tornado...for sure......Grandpa said the best thing to do in that case was to stop when we saw it and lay down in the DITCH!!! I looked over there in the ditch and it was fu full of water...NOT ME!!! I would have stayed in the car....Well , the tornado went the other way...and we were safe once more.....O.K> enough of that....



3. The flowers on some wood shingles. Alady in Helena Georgia was burning something when I went by her home in about 1980,,,I stopped and asked her why she was burning them...She said to have heat in her home...Someone had given them to her when they tore down their house. I asked her IF I could have some of them....She said,,,of course,....so I picked up some of the best and widest ones.....to paint on.. I hadn't been painting very long..and didn't really think I did a very good job...but the shingles added a lot of distinction to them.....I had done quite a few of them...but don't know where the others got to.....I had several bundles left in the garage when Grandpa died...and I moved to Ohio..so don't know what happened to the other ones.

Welcome!

As my Grandmother and I sat cleaning out her stuff a few years ago...I acquired some things that she had. I also have some special things that she has given me over the years.

A while back, I decided that I would take photos of some of her things and let her tell me about them so that I could pass them along to my kids someday with their stories. It is, afterall, the stories that make them special.

That is my intention with this blog. I want to post the photos and record the memories that they evoke.

It's another way that I plan to leave a legacy to my kids.

Enjoy!!