Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Music: Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Handle With Care
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I had really expected the worst for this vacation. My mother, me, and my grandfather? It sounded like a recipe for disaster, right?

It was wonderful. One of the most relaxing vacations I've ever taken. My mother and I got along great. It was breezy so she didn't make me go to the beach (I hate the beach. I do. I go because my friends are going, but I don't really like it there. Put me in a park if I have to be outside. At least there's some shade there.) We went shopping a lot and also had plenty of downtime. I got a *ton* of knitting done and even found a nice yarn shope right near PopPop's house. Bought way too much Noro, but I won't get in to that here. I also bought some stuff to make sweaters for the new babies in the family. Mom and I also got material at the huge fabric store. I've always wanted to sew properly....That area has a lot of crafting stores. It's mostly older folks, so they need do all this stuff to keep busy.

Spent a lot of time with my grandpa, his girlfried, and his little crew of friends. My PopPop is a very popular guy. He knew everyone at church on the day he took us and there were lots of calls coming in from people asking if he wanted to go do this or that over the weekend. We kinda put a crimp in his social calender, but he made it very clear he was happy to see us. I also learned all sorts of stuff about my mom's side of the family. Turns out Pop's from central PA, right by where I went to college! I promised to look up as best I could where his father (who died when my Pop was just two months old) is burried. Pop always said he'd go looking for the grave but he doesn't think it'll be possible at this point. If I can find it, maybe we can take him out there when he comes up to visit in June. The internet is powerful. I hope it has something that can help me find this man burried in a tiny Pennsylvania coal mining town.
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