couchy's blog: "~ღஐtrue_blue_joeyஐღ~"

well it's almost November & it'll now be known as the worse month for me for the rest of my life... last year my grandfather turned 98 on the 3rd of November & although he had been sick for a few years & I knew that eventually his body would have to give up on him sooner or later he succumbed to old age & illness 3 weeks later on the 25th... perhaps it may be seen as selfish but I just wasn't ready to let him go & when you get to my age & still have 3 out of 4 grandparents alive you begin to think they're both invincible & immortal but eventually time does catch up to them... Papa & Gran (who turned 94 in May this year) gave my brothers, cousins & myself the best childhood a kid could hope for... every school holidays were spent on their farm & even though there were chores that needed to be done such as mustering the cattle, branding the cattle & even the housework they never expected us to lift a finger (childhood is for making memories not doing chores), in fact the only chore we ever did was collect the eggs from the hen house & that was because it was such a fun task to do that we never did at our houses... we spent many a day riding the horses (even me despite my allergy to them), exploring the far reaches of their property (which was pretty damned big & not just from the perspective of a child) & playing many a game in the many tree houses we built around the property... many life lessons were learnt on that farm which could only be taught on a farm as a child in the '80's... we all loved taking trips into town to help pick up lucerne from the co-op, visiting the sale yards when the cattle were old enough to sell & make money & the memories we all made at the local lawn bowls club they were members of were never to be replicated anywhere else... so if I go a bit quiet over the next couple of weeks leading up to November & for those few weeks of November please bare with me & understand why... he's a tough man from a tough era who took no shit from no-one but also treated everyone with the respect they deserved R.I.P. papa... forever gone in our lives but never in our hearts