Thread: How old is your granny?

Since both Grandmas have long since past, one past before I was born, I'm hard pressed to even estimate what their ages would have been today. But since I am now at an age that I know passes where they were when they passed it tends to sober me. Received, just today, a letter from a young Granddaughter asking for ancestral info for a school project she's working on. That, in itself, casts a very sober caul on my current events.

Dad's 87, so if granny would still be alive, 118. Tc

My grandmother (still alive one grandmother on my father's side) 91. It was October 26.
When my family and I came to congratulate her on her birthday, we had a surprise.
She was done cutting in the garden three old trees. Uprooted stumps and roots. All neatly cut and stacked firewood. Oh, my God. She said that she was bored sitting in the house.

When I was on the square, it was "how old is your mother?" Which obviously relates to your mother lodge. In my case it was 2869!

edit: both my grandmothers lived well into their 90's.

She is 128 and came from the West. Seems there are a lot of straight razor users that love even older traditions huh?

I'm kinda thinkin' this thread took an unexpected turn.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Since both Grandmas have long since past, one past before I was born, I'm hard pressed to even estimate what their ages would have been today. But since I am now at an age that I know passes where they were when they passed it tends to sober me. Received, just today, a letter from a young Granddaughter asking for ancestral info for a school project she's working on. That, in itself, casts a very sober caul on my current events.

Well. If it helps, Richard.....I have adopted you as my Grandma with the absence of one.
Your great common sense and wisdom reminds me of her, although you are still much younger!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Well. If it helps, Richard.....I have adopted you as my Grandma with the absence of one.
Your great common sense and wisdom reminds me of her, although you are still much younger!

Alright ya little whippersnapper! Mind yer p's and q's and if I hear of any shenanigans I'ma goin ta cut ya outa da will again.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Alright ya little whippersnapper! Mind yer p's and q's and if I hear of any shenanigans I'ma goin ta cut ya outa da will again.

Sorry there, Richard!
My mom's mother would be taking-up and letting down donated jeans for an old aunt who had taken on her siblings 8 kids for free and would be altering a fancy dress for the doctor's wife the same day.
Outfits for the twirlers at the high-school, curtains for the restaurant. I saw my first couch being reupholstered, first wedding dress being fitted and altered. My first view of a smile on a new bride. Country folks, black and white. Good people.
She never left the house. The best came to her.

I spent many hours watching her. Learning things. Great gal.
I especially loved making the fabric-covered buttons with the cool old press apparatus.

Your affinity for the fabric is not lost upon me. Not to mention the wisdom!