(May 27, 2020 at 6:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 27, 2020 at 6:04 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Granddaddy was only cutthroat when playing croquet, often with the man to his right, my great uncle Freeman. They made up their own rules depending on whose yard they were playing on and showed no mercy.
He was an amazing deep sea fisherman, musician, drunken old sea captain, champion checkers player, and overall a damn fun grandfather. He called me Cap'n.
I envy you. By the time I was old enough to have had a relationship with him, my grandad pretty much just sat by the fire and looked for fairy castles in the flames.
Boru
He had more pirate in him than you might think. When he and grandma Cathleen married, she was 16 and he was 24 or 25. Mom was born the next year and I was born 17 years after that. So, he was a pretty young grandfather. Their youngest (my aunt Sue) is only three years older than I am. Our generational lines are a little fuzzy.
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