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In your tea, either hot tea or iced tea do you like sweetener such as sugar? Do you use lemon for flavor. I remember with great fondness the mornings I would visit my dear old grannie who would fix me tea, being a proper old Irish woman we would of course have hot scones with our tea. Granny used to have sugar and lemon juice, the old fashioned stuff that came in a yellow plastic lemon shaped container. I assume its old fashioned as I have never seen it in years.
My granny would always refer to me as her gay boy, of course that was mid 60's well before the word "gay" was hijacked by the homosexual community and actually meant "happy" She called me that as I always had a smile on my face and I loved to laugh and joke around. Granny would get up at 4:00 am every morning to say her prayers, do her laundry and tidy up. When I would come by around 6:00 am for tea and scones she would have the newspaper out reading the happenings of the day, and of course Dear Abby.
My granny was 4' 9" tall and about the biggest person I ever met. I would come over some times and pick up her Daltons and Hummels and she would tell me " If you break that I will give you a dab in the kisser " while showing me her balled up fist which was smaller than my 6 year old fist. Once I walked with her down to the store, she was born in 1898 and never learned to drive, and on the way we passed the old house with junk cars and the dobermans and as usual they crashed up against the wooden fence barking their heads off. This particular day the fence came open and the dogs came running at us teeth bared and just as i was about to run my granny grabbed my arm and said " you never run " and just as it seemed the dogs were about to eat us my granny pointed her finger at the dogs, who were about as tall as her and said " stop or I will give you a dab in the kisser " both dogs stopped and looked at her and she said " now go home and leave us alone " amazingly the dogs turned and went back into the fenced area and let us go unharmed.
As I said she was the biggest person I have ever met, I miss her and pray that heaven may be her bed. She never learned to drive as " cars made her nervous " this was a woman who raised six girls and my father while working full time to support the children and take care of her husband who was sickly and an alcoholic. A woman who worked in a factory who was burned over 60% of her body and told by the doctors she had no chance to live, who volunteered for the church cleaning it free of charge and cooking for the priests. She lived until she died in 1986, some people just survive but my granny actually lived. She was a giant!
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My granny would always refer to me as her gay boy, of course that was mid 60's well before the word "gay" was hijacked by the homosexual community and actually meant "happy" She called me that as I always had a smile on my face and I loved to laugh and joke around. Granny would get up at 4:00 am every morning to say her prayers, do her laundry and tidy up. When I would come by around 6:00 am for tea and scones she would have the newspaper out reading the happenings of the day, and of course Dear Abby.
My granny was 4' 9" tall and about the biggest person I ever met. I would come over some times and pick up her Daltons and Hummels and she would tell me " If you break that I will give you a dab in the kisser " while showing me her balled up fist which was smaller than my 6 year old fist. Once I walked with her down to the store, she was born in 1898 and never learned to drive, and on the way we passed the old house with junk cars and the dobermans and as usual they crashed up against the wooden fence barking their heads off. This particular day the fence came open and the dogs came running at us teeth bared and just as i was about to run my granny grabbed my arm and said " you never run " and just as it seemed the dogs were about to eat us my granny pointed her finger at the dogs, who were about as tall as her and said " stop or I will give you a dab in the kisser " both dogs stopped and looked at her and she said " now go home and leave us alone " amazingly the dogs turned and went back into the fenced area and let us go unharmed.
As I said she was the biggest person I have ever met, I miss her and pray that heaven may be her bed. She never learned to drive as " cars made her nervous " this was a woman who raised six girls and my father while working full time to support the children and take care of her husband who was sickly and an alcoholic. A woman who worked in a factory who was burned over 60% of her body and told by the doctors she had no chance to live, who volunteered for the church cleaning it free of charge and cooking for the priests. She lived until she died in 1986, some people just survive but my granny actually lived. She was a giant!
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