Younger Folks

[WH_Conley]

The granddaughter, the one we have raised, came home last night from grand parents on the other side. She had a new CD player with a radio on it. The joke around here is the basement is my room. With sharpener and reloading stuff I spend a lot of time down there. I told her, "Oh boy I can take it to my room so I can have a radio." I usually listen to tapes if I listen to anything. This kid is 8 years old. She promptly gets up and goes to the basement, with the radio. She then gives me a lesson on the different function of the device. She then tells me that if someone gets her a new CD for Christmas she can listen to it down there. She said, "I don't really need a radio, I have a TV". This morning she opened a present that was a Miranda Lambert CD, oh, the kids likes country music. She played her new CD and came back up. Looked at me and said "Pappy, I left the CD in the player in case you want to listen to it, we will put it in the car when school starts back." My wife takes her out to the bus in the mornings and they sit in the car and wait on the bus. Pappy has to take her deer hunting and has her own seat on the backhoe when I am moving logs. What do you with a kid like that?

[WDH]

You treat her like the little Princess that she is.

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

You give her a big hug and kiss and tell once again how much you love her.

[WH_Conley]

Already did.

[Magicman]

There is a lot more to growing than planting a seed.   

[Norm]

I find children are a product of their upbringing.

Thanks for the smile on my face this morning Bill. 

[thecfarm]

What a sweet story. That girl will grow up to be somebody who cares about other people. She has the cares about other people part,now she just has to grow up.

[Riggs]

I'm pretty new here, but I found this thread this morning while watching my kids play in the floor. This is just another shout out to the fine people here. I've enjoyed reading the stories and looking at the pictures. My Kids, Kassidy (3 1/2 yrs) and Alek (20 months) are the light of my world. Thanks to all of you for sharing your stories. 

[Roxie]

Our 3 year old grandson got his first six point buck today! 

 

 

It was his oldest brothers inflatable target for his pump action, foam cartridge rifle.  James announced he was gonna ride it, and after a brief struggle, he succeeded. 

[Chuck White]

Hey there!!!!

Happy birthday Roxie!

And many more too.

[Bibbyman]

I don’t get to post here much anymore.  I miss that.  Our two granddaughters are teenagers now and much changed from the cute little girls I’ve wrote about so many times.  Oldest, Alex is leading the way in the rebellion.  Oh,  not nearly as bad as it could be.  And only natural for them to fight for their “space” and spot in the world.

Anyway,  last evening something happened that I was pleased to see -  a case of history repeating itself.

Many years ago when our two boys were say 8 and 10 we had rented the VHS tape “Rear Window”.  We urged them to set and watch it with us.  They were reluctant.  It was “stupid” – old people just setting around, on and on.  But we pretty much forced them to start watching it.  They grumbled and tried to break away but we kept them there.  About 20-30 minutes into the movie – about the time James Stewart got suspicious of the actions of Raymond Burr, they started to quiet down and pay attention.  They started to ask questions of the different characters in the windows. By mid-movie they were hooked and by the finally they were glued to the TV, fully engrossed in it.

Well,  a few days ago we got a fully restored DVD version of the movie from Netflix.  I’d told the girls the above story and a little about the movie and what made it so special.  Alex said, “That sounds stupid to me.”.   The evening was spent with homework and trumpet practice so we didn’t get to set down and watch it together.  Mary and I watched part of it in the late evening and picked up on it the next morning while we were waiting for the sun to come up and fog to lift a little.

Turned out last evening Alex spent the night with a friend so we just had Brooke at home.  She’s just turned 13 and still pliable to some extent.  I remainder her about the movie.   She was reluctant but I put it on during supper time.  (I’ve found they’ll even watch Gene Autry during feeding times.)  She rattled along as she normally does only paying little attention to the movie.  We talked about Grace Kelley and how she looked and how she dressed.  I told her about Edith Head and how she was famous for the cloths like Grace Kelly wore, etc.  She thought it “stupid” to dress like that and couldn’t see herself in those cloths. 

The romance between Kelly and Stewart got her first attention.  Then she noted when James got suspicions of Raymond Burr’s actions and she got suspicious too.  She didn’t want to wait to find out.  We wouldn’t tell her.  One annoying thing about Brooke is that she loves to talk all the way through a movie.  If she’s not discussing or commenting about it, she’s repeating the lines.  It’s most annoying but I let her go this time.  We’d even paused the movie and talk about it until she got talked out.  Of course she was hooked and kept getting in deeper until she was completely engrossed.

I enjoyed watching her enjoy a great classic movie. 

We talked about it after it was over and how it contrasted with movies made today.  She still couldn’t get over why Kelly would put up with that "old man" and why he was so mean to her.

[sawguy21]

Those girls are growing up fast. Hang a moose rack over the door so all the young bucks in the county will think you own a gun.

[pineywoods]

Bibby you might consider what my neighbor says about his "soon to be teenager " grand daughter. The first boy that shows up will be taken out to the woodshed and given a sound thrashing as an example for the others that will surely follow. 

[Norm]

I just doesn't get any better than this!



Joel surprised us yesterday by showing up unannounced with the grandsons. We spent the day going from tractor to tractor to semi to dozer to....

Cael is not afraid of anything and when we were in the excavator I was showing him the controls and how they move the bucket and such. I turned to talk to Joel for just a second and he grabbed the joysticks and promptly tried to bury his Dad! I grabbed them quick but then he grabbed the grouser sticks and almost spun us around. I shut off the hydraulics really quick!

[thecfarm]

Guess he was getting back at Dad. 

[Magicman]

Congrats on a fun filled day.  Boys like stuff with motors.   Makes no difference whether they are little boys or big boys.   

[Roxie]

What a great picture!