Tuesday
Waxing Half Moon in Gemini > Cancer/11:55 a.m. PST


Sitting here this afternoon, I was beginning to think it was another day of an empty brain.

But then, I had an image of my grandparents - both sides of the family. Don't get me wrong, I loved my grandparents but I was never very close towards either side.

I'm not sure why that is but it is a puzzle to me.

I can remember just once spending a school vacation at my paternal grandparents. Before the week was over, I was ready to return home. I forgot to bring plenty of books to read and other items to entertain myself. I do remember Granddad and I went walking in the woods behind his house. The great thing about Granddad was he was a good storyteller.

I can remember going to their house with Dad and Stepmother to visit for a day. That was easier to take because the adults could amuse themselves and I was left to my own devices of amusement.

I've had three paternal grandmothers. The first for which my first name comes from died a few days after Dad's birth. The second grandmother whom I knew the best and my middle name came from, was a peach. I most remember of her is that she loved my Grandfather, she liked to crochet and she collected salt and peppershakers. I was sad not to have gotten a set when she died. Then there was my third Grandmother. She came from a large family and they all took to Granddad but who didn't. I never got to know her well and after several years she died.

This was the end of the Dyer Grandmothers.

On the maternal side of the family, there was one set of grandparents. My grandmother came down very ill and died when I was a small child. My grandfather remained a widower for the rest of his life. He smoked cigar. I thought they were vile things at the time and Granddad was a gruff old man. I can't say I liked him much and we didn't have any type of a relationship together.

The funny thing was I had close relationships with both maternal and paternal Great Aunts. Both taught me about the ways of life and I had great fun with both of them. Every summer I spent time with both with one living in Tonganoxie, Kansas and the other in Otisfield, Maine.

How funny not to have close relationships with the grandparents and great relations with the sisters to the grandparents.

mz. em



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"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." - William Penn, English entrepreneur and philosopher

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