After two weeks on the old Wagoner family farm, I am returned to Ottawa. All four of us went down for the first week, but then Jane and Thomas returned for school and work while Lillian and I remained behind. In the first week we were joined on the farm by my 82 year old Grandpa (who still lives there), as well as my dad, aunt, uncle and cousins plus all the respective partners. That put us at 14 people staying and we hit 28 people (another 14 extended family) in total on the Sunday for dinner. It was, as always, huge fun. The second week was just Grandpa, Lillian and I. It too was brilliant. I’ll blog about all that later (honest). Right now I just want to revisit a previous visit.
As some of you may recall, Tom and I traveled from Canberra to Iowa when he was just 18 months old to attend grandpa and grandma’s 60th wedding anniversary (Jane was heavily pregnant with Lillian and unable to travel). Despite the many cameras at the event, I didn’t have any good shots of Thomas and my now deceased grandma. This bothered me enormously since it was the only time Thomas ever saw grandma.
On this most recent trip, while loading all my pics onto grandpa’s computer, I discovered his pics from that visit.
There were more pics, but these are my favorites and I much happier now.
Yay!
ReplyDelete...wish I could manage the same with my kid and his grandmum.
Ah well. Loved the Necronomicon link, BTW. Oh -- you want one of these shirts I've been doing? Got myself a little squeegee and silkscreen. Specify size and colour, and I'll send you a shirt neatly printed with
"In case of medical emergency, please contact: Dr Herbert West, MD."
You know how to send details as needed.
Good pictures of Granma Wagoner and Tom. Flinty - great shirt idea!
ReplyDeleteI bet you were relieved!
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