Time Warp Tuesday – Great Grandparents
Yup! I AM perpetually late for any and everything! Here’s my shot for Jenn’s Time Warp Tuesday!
Remember a couple weeks ago, I posted the picture of the three sisters for TWT? Well, here are their parents.
Can you understand the sisters’ sense of humor now? I really wish I knew these folks…they were long gone by the time I came around. This shot is from their 50th wedding anniversary!
To give you an even better idea of the type of man my Great Grandfather was, here’s a poem he wrote:
After breakfast, after dinner, and also after tea
And many times all through the day they are confronting me.
Dirty dishes, dirty pans, knives and forks and spoons,
Dirty kettles, dirty cans lay about the rooms.
Still I wash and put away at suppertime and noon.
Dirty dishes never stay long about the room
For I need them every one in my daily work
To cook, to bake, to eat our meals t’would never do to shirk.
How the children hate them I am sure, I can’t see why -
I have washed for many years and in the bye and bye
Their children will be dodging, twill then be left for them
To wash, to wipe, to put away, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN!
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December 4th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Are you saying your great-grandfather did the dishes?
Wow. What a catch!
December 4th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
You’re not late. Tuesday’s barely started! Great poem.
December 4th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
You know Grandpa Daniel was a Butcher. He had his own meat shop. Mom told me that during the war when everyone lived sparingly on meat coupons, he was able to bring home a roast, or sausages, etc. I sometimes think this is why my father asked my mother to marry him!
Grandma Daniel, was a real hoot! When she gave birth to her last child (my grandmother) at home, the doctor arrived a little late to help. He asked where the baby was? “I’m sitting on it!” she told him! He was horrified until she showed him the baby staying warm (she was born February 4th), under the blankets!
December 4th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Oh boy, do they look like fun! And that poem is hysterical… and I can certainly relate!!
December 5th, 2012 at 12:30 am
What fun–both picture and poem.