Remembering Grams

Remembering Grams

There have been only three people in my life who have loved me unconditionally and never gave up on me. Two of them have passed away; my Mother and her Mother, my Grandmother Dorothy. I called her Grams. Today would have been her 94th birthday. Happy Birthday Grams!

My Sister and I used to go down and visit her and my Grandpa Harold (Gramps) on their farm in Kansas for a month every summer. I really looked forward to it because they spoiled me rotten. We would go to rodeos, ride horses, shoot guns, go fishing and camping. I also did farming. We were there in the middle of growing season so I mostly ran weeding implements behind the tractor. I also did a lot of mowing. There was this 8 foot sickle bar attachment to the tractor. It was like an eight foot chain saw sticking out from the side of the tractor. It was cool!

Gramps taught me how to drive when I was 8 or 9. I was a big kid. And he let me drive the pickup all by myself when I was 12. He told me that farm kids could drive farm vehicles without a license. It was fun! He used to send me into town to get supplies and stuff while he worked.

Grams used to go to the bakery outlet store and fill her "deep freeze" in the cellar with cup cakes, doughnuts and other goodies. In the middle of the hot days (and they were always hot in the summer in Kansas, except when there were monster thunderstorms and tornadoes!) we would all rest in the house for a couple of hours. My Sister and I would go down to the cellar and pig out.

As I got older my favorite thing became Grams' breakfasts. My first breakfast after I arrived would be scrambled eggs, toast, and jelly. Oh, but that's not all! Big juicy pork chops, not those crumby things you get today with no fat content, BIG JUICY PORK CHOPS! And that could be enough for anybody, but the piece de resistance... FRIED POTATOES AND ONIONS! I could have gone without all the rest. Her fried potatoes and onions were the very best! I love to cook so I used to try to duplicate her recipe. I have never been able to equal it, though I have come close. I think there was one ingredient I couldn't buy.

I love you Grams!

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