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re: What’s the small things that remind you of your grandparents
Posted on 2/14/21 at 8:16 pm to Dave_O
Posted on 2/14/21 at 8:16 pm to Dave_O
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I’d give my left arm to sit at the table and eat some fried eggs, homemade biscuits, and coffee, and make small talk with her while she ate her oatmeal and drank milk one more time.
I know that feeling. I’m glad I still have my mother and try to think about that stuff when I’m over visiting and we’re having coffee in the morning. Man, that woman sure likes to talk in the morning. I know I’ll miss it one day and feel the same as I do about my Maw Maw and having coffee milk over Toastees or cornbread/milk on a Sunday night.
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Posted on 2/14/21 at 8:33 pm to supadave3
I have a casserole dish my grandmother gave me when I started at LSU. I still have a plastic bobber in my tackle box she gave me when I was in high school. She loved to fish more than any person I know. And she loved to cook. Some of my my best memories I have is when I would stop by her house on Fridays on the way home from NLU. She would cook something up and we would sit and talk. My grandfather on my dad’s side always fixed squirrel jambalaya when we would go over to his house to eat. I look forward to the day that I can talk with them again.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 8:36 pm to bonescanner
When I smelled an Orange air freshener the other day.
PawPaw (maternal grandfather) would scent the hell out of his big red truck with orange spray and orange air freshener and when I smelled it, it reminded me of a specific memory of him taking me and my brother for a ride to go get groceries at the store and get some ice cream right after.
I miss him. He was the best man I have ever known.
PawPaw (maternal grandfather) would scent the hell out of his big red truck with orange spray and orange air freshener and when I smelled it, it reminded me of a specific memory of him taking me and my brother for a ride to go get groceries at the store and get some ice cream right after.
I miss him. He was the best man I have ever known.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 8:53 pm to bonescanner
My granddad was an architect. I have some distinct memories of being in his office while he was working with colored pencils. My wife ordered some colored pencils the other day for my boys and it brought me right back into his office when I opened the package the other day. I could smell the rolled up sets of plans.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 8:59 pm to kook
I accidentally backed into one of those after a bath when I was 6 or 7 and burned the absolute hell out of my arse. Had grill marks on both cheeks for years.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:13 pm to kook
The photo of that heater built into the bathroom wall. I backed into one of those at my grandparents house getting out of the tub and burnt my arse real bad when I was about eight years old.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:15 pm to bonescanner
Coffee milk
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:20 pm to Relham10
The smell of a pipe and Old Milwaukee.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:25 pm to Drewco
6.5 oz Coca-Colas, sweet tea with a squeeze of key lime, and mangoes, lots of mangoes
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:59 pm to SpotCheckBilly
Man these have me smiling! My Mawmaw was her fried chicken and her cat head biscuits! My pawpaw was his old truck and hIs half of stick double mint gum he’d keep in his shirt pocket. I had one of his old shirts one time maybe 12 years after he passed and felt something in the front pocket. Pulled out that half of stick of gum. Man I lost it. Something about those moments that keep them alive
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:01 pm to bonescanner
Rubber bands. My grandfather used to make these wooden guns that shot rubber bands for all the neighbors kids.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:01 pm to kook
I remember my grandparents having one of those in their house. They eventually remodeled and that heater ended up in my grandfather's deer stand so I got more memories from it when he took me hunting.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:02 pm to bonescanner
Any time I smell cast iron pots.
Considering the amount of cooking they did in nothing but cast iron, any time I smell anything being cooked in a cast iron, I can literally see my grandparents kitchen.
Considering the amount of cooking they did in nothing but cast iron, any time I smell anything being cooked in a cast iron, I can literally see my grandparents kitchen.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:02 pm to bonescanner
Chocolate gravy on buttered biscuits.
This post was edited on 2/14/21 at 10:03 pm
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:05 pm to bonescanner
My wife recently bought a bar of that very basic yellow Dial soap, my grandparents always had the same bar in their bathroom when we stayed over. An odd one, but the smell of that reminds me of them.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:14 pm to JumpingTheShark
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My wife recently bought a bar of that very basic yellow Dial soap, my grandparents always had the same bar in their bathroom when we stayed over. An odd one, but the smell of that reminds me of them.
Another good one.
I've got my grandfather's Browning 16 gauge and even almost 20 years after he gave it to me, it still smells like their house.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:14 pm to Prominentwon
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Any time I smell cast iron pots.
Considering the amount of cooking they did in nothing but cast iron, any time I smell anything being cooked in a cast iron, I can literally see my grandparents kitchen.
I found my grandmother's cast iron skillet a couple of years ago, reconditioned it, and still use it. I also found her electric skillet from the 50s. Used it to fry some speckled trout just last week.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 11:03 pm to bonescanner
My grandparents were from Long Island, NY where I was born but we moved to Florida when I was 9.
My maternal grandparents. Grandfather was in a bad car accident the year before I was born which left him mostly a quadriplegic. Even though his fingers were permanently curled up he would always have PBR in the fridge, he would suck on Butter Rum Lifesavers, and since he would be stuck in front of a TV being in a wheelchair it was Mets games, Giants games, and NASCAR on every weekend. My grandmother who passed away when I was 7 from lung cancer but I still remember some things about her. Entenmann's Crumb Cake, she always had a box of it around when we would come over. And she LOVED game shows! The Price Is Right, Press Your Luck, or Nighttime Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy would always be on in their house. This is what made me a huge game show fanatic. My grandpa passed away 6 months before I enlisted in the Air Force in 2000, as a Korean War Army vet, I know he would be proud.
My paternal grandparents moved to Florida a year after my parents moved there. My grand stepfather (He married my widowed grandmother when my Dad was 19), collected stamps and kept up with their camper. Being in a camper reminds me of my paternal grandparents. My grandmother is my only living grandparent at 89 and kinda looks like a cross between Angela Lansbury and Lady Elaine from Mister Rogers and she would always have grapefruits picked from her tree in her backyard and she always had ice cream out after every meal and she never missed an episode of Wheel and Jeopardy either.
My wife's grandparents (who I all met and loved too) were more typical greatest generationers especially her grandfathers who crafted and fixed everything themselves! When her paternal pop pop (NJ) passed away, it took us 2 weeks to clean out his garage because he had every tool, paint, and chemical known to man!
My maternal grandparents. Grandfather was in a bad car accident the year before I was born which left him mostly a quadriplegic. Even though his fingers were permanently curled up he would always have PBR in the fridge, he would suck on Butter Rum Lifesavers, and since he would be stuck in front of a TV being in a wheelchair it was Mets games, Giants games, and NASCAR on every weekend. My grandmother who passed away when I was 7 from lung cancer but I still remember some things about her. Entenmann's Crumb Cake, she always had a box of it around when we would come over. And she LOVED game shows! The Price Is Right, Press Your Luck, or Nighttime Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy would always be on in their house. This is what made me a huge game show fanatic. My grandpa passed away 6 months before I enlisted in the Air Force in 2000, as a Korean War Army vet, I know he would be proud.
My paternal grandparents moved to Florida a year after my parents moved there. My grand stepfather (He married my widowed grandmother when my Dad was 19), collected stamps and kept up with their camper. Being in a camper reminds me of my paternal grandparents. My grandmother is my only living grandparent at 89 and kinda looks like a cross between Angela Lansbury and Lady Elaine from Mister Rogers and she would always have grapefruits picked from her tree in her backyard and she always had ice cream out after every meal and she never missed an episode of Wheel and Jeopardy either.
My wife's grandparents (who I all met and loved too) were more typical greatest generationers especially her grandfathers who crafted and fixed everything themselves! When her paternal pop pop (NJ) passed away, it took us 2 weeks to clean out his garage because he had every tool, paint, and chemical known to man!
This post was edited on 2/14/21 at 11:08 pm
Posted on 2/14/21 at 11:07 pm to bonescanner
A pair of working man’s hands.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 11:08 pm to Martini
quote:does that get your panties all wet Martina?
A pair of working man’s hands.
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