Sunday, January 20, 2013

My Grandma is:


Walks to the 410 Market
plate sized hot cakes
coffee creamer on your Total
never dirty laundry in the house….even for 5 minutes
ironed blue jeans
Peanut butter bonbons
waking to her in the kitchen humming (with a twang)
Somewhere My Love
Summers of yard sales and Winters of Christmas bazaars
Crisp Line dried sheets
a squeaky brass guest bed
Paper towels
spotless window tracks
Canvas tennis shoes and ankle socks
The Oakridge Boys and the Statler Brothers
vinegar and cucumbers in ice water
coffee in the percolator
The proper cleaning of a thanksgiving turkey
Perfect fluffy 7 minute icing on chocolate cake
Neapolitan ice cream and sugar wafers
Chocolate Chip Zucchini bread
Lots of scotch tape
Always cookies in the turquoise glass cookie jar
beautiful flowers
saltine crackers with butter or jam
Flowered upholstered sofas
a flame orange afghan
Homemade popcorn balls on Halloween
Peanut brittle
Ribbon candy at Christmas
Hens n chicks in old work boots
Roses
And most important the love for her family

I’m going to miss you grandma.
Juanita [Lewallen Baugh] Overman Jan 16, 1924-Jan 19, 2013
Written by her granddaughter, Michelle Baugh Wright

Added by Keri Baugh Theobald: Chips and salsa, pineapple juice, homemade quilts on the beds, playing kings in the corner, black and white pictures, pen and paper, fancy jewelry box, record player, beans for supper, flat crispy cookies, clean fluffy towels and clean feet at bed time, house plants, the smell of coffee and pancakes in the morning Grandmas purse had many compartments, the smell of mint and pink lipstick
White sheers on the windows
bleeding hearts, snapdragons and snowballs
Crushing cans and recycling paper
Antique dishes and old pink curlers
Davenports, hutches ottomans and cedar chest
Bar soap and shower caps
Knee high stockings and powder puffs
Bread and butter pickles
Dollies
Double solitaire
Embroidered pillow cases
Clothes in a Wicker basket to be hung on the line
Bi-mart Tuesdays
And an old trunk full of memories
 Added by TerriLyn Baugh Young:
Christmas tree lights that looked like colorful glowing snowballs
a ceramic Christmas tree with snow and lights
matching pink striped dresses for me and my sisters because I said they were pretty
coaching me to call her tiny dog "Tigger" instead of "Tiger"
blackberry sundae from DQ when she picked me up after I missed the bus
wiping sweat from her forehead with an upward motion and commenting on the heat
snowball bushes
African violets by the dozens
black and red "Mead" notepads
mapping out a route for catching the yard sales
"goodnight girls" said without her dentures in
watching Arsenic and Old Lace, and Doctor Zhivago
pink lemonade
pink bathroom and an opalesent ceramic soap dish held up by cherubs
accordion folding blankets at the end of the bed, just in case you needed one more
UFO and ghost stories
putting curlers in my hair to give it "body" then sending me out to ride a bike while my hair dried
crochet lessons
John Denver, Don Williams, Irish Rovers
"Come on, Grandpa!. . . No, not you, Elbert. The slow guy in the car ahead of us."

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