Pieces taken from an email to my grandson...
I am writing this on our new Micron, with the HUGE monitor. It's startling at first to see this big E-Mail coming up in front of me! Yesterday had such a beautiful start to it. Yesterday, D and I went over to Campgrounds, 2 miles from here across the bridge, where the RV is stored to take the tarp off because it had finally ripped open.
It was a warmish spring day when we left the house, but the wind came up and
the sky turned a peculiar dark color while we were there, and blew away
spring. It was cold up on that thar hill! Then it finally began to rain, but we
were on our way back over the bridge. Now the report is for 1-2 inches of
snow for Chautauqua County.
However, D put up my "growing light" in the kitchen yesterday over my tiny little tomato plants that pushed through the soil on Friday. They are standing nice and tall this morning, so I can think of spring inspite of the snowy landscape. It's just starting to get light out now, and I see feathery snow coming down.
...I am remembering my Grandmother N and her letters to my Aunt Althea after Al's surgery for a brain tumor. They had shaved Al's head for the surgery, and Grandma, who was in her 90's then, wrote to Al every day. "How are you feeling?", she'd write, "Any fuzz on your head yet?"
After Althea died, we found a big packet of letters to her from Grandma, and everyone was just about the same. It was so hard on her to lose a daughter. She felt that at 92, she should be the one who died, not her 63-year old child.) She died at 98 the year before you were born. She loved your Mom and would have loved seeing her baby.
Grandma was quite a woman. She attended formal school for the first time when
she was in her teens, yet she graduated from Boston University (in "19 ought 2", as she would say) with a degree in Chemistry and Mathematics, quite a feat for a woman in those days. Two years later she graduated with a Masters from BU in the same majors. She worked her way through her Masters program tutoring Chinese immigrants in English. Interesting lady.