My brother Matt called my mom earlier, and she happened to be with my cute grandpa. Matt got on the phone with him for a minute and, from what Matt told me, the conversation when something like this:
Matt: Now that the weather is warming up I can come up and mow your lawn again each week.
Grandpa: The lawn is fine but I need some help with all the deer deposits.
Matt: Okay, I'll bring a shovel with me.
Grandpa: No, bring a rake. It's excellent fertilizer.
Mainly, I just like that he called the deer poop "deer deposits."
Friday, March 4, 2011
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Ladies and Their Purses
On Saturday I went to visit my grandpa. My mom was also there with my two-year-old nephew Beck and my three-year-old niece Paityn. The kids were playing with some toys that grandpa keeps around for his great grandchildren. Paityn began putting some blocks and other small toys into her little purse, and grandpa said, "I always wondered what ladies keep in their purses."
I laughed, of course, at this cute comment, and then my grandpa continued to tell us that he really had wondered all his life what kinds of things ladies keep in their purses, and that several years ago when he was working as a photographer at the Deseret News he asked ladies who walked by downtown if he could take a picture of the inside of their purse. Many actually let him. I wonder if he still has those photos. Maybe I'll ask him next time I visit. If he still has them I will see if he'll let me post them here.
I laughed, of course, at this cute comment, and then my grandpa continued to tell us that he really had wondered all his life what kinds of things ladies keep in their purses, and that several years ago when he was working as a photographer at the Deseret News he asked ladies who walked by downtown if he could take a picture of the inside of their purse. Many actually let him. I wonder if he still has those photos. Maybe I'll ask him next time I visit. If he still has them I will see if he'll let me post them here.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Why I Created This Blog
12/18/19
Update: My grandpa passed away shortly after I started this blog. I leave it here in memory of him, and I will add to it when I recall some of the funny things he said or did. Sometimes I miss him so much, I can't breathe.
I created this blog to share with others the hilarious and wise things that my grandpa says, and to encourage people everywhere to visit their grandparents often. Not only for their sake, but for ours. Our grandparents have lived a long time and have learned many wise lessons. They have a lot to teach us. For the most part our grandparents are a valuable source of advice, and they love us more than we may realize. Simple visits from their children and grandchildren bring so much joy to them. So, for those of you who live near your grandparents, I encourage you to visit them at least weekly. Listen to their stories and learn from them.
I am fortunate to have one of the coolest people on the face of the earth as a blood relative...my grandpa J Malan Heslop. His wife, my beautiful grandma Fae Stokes Heslop passed away in March of 2009, just shy of their 65th wedding anniversary. To help him with the transition and with his declining health, and to just spend more time with him, I lived with him for about a year. During that time I heard many stories about his childhood, his courtship with my grandmother, and the raising of their cute family. I found myself laughing so often at his brilliant sense of humor.
I no longer live with my grandpa, but when I moved out I swore to myself that I would continue to visit him weekly. Well, life gets in the way and I found that I don't visit him nearly as often as I should. By creating this blog I commit myself to visiting him weekly and to sharing with the readers of this blog his his cute, funny, wise and wonderful comments.
Update: My grandpa passed away shortly after I started this blog. I leave it here in memory of him, and I will add to it when I recall some of the funny things he said or did. Sometimes I miss him so much, I can't breathe.
I created this blog to share with others the hilarious and wise things that my grandpa says, and to encourage people everywhere to visit their grandparents often. Not only for their sake, but for ours. Our grandparents have lived a long time and have learned many wise lessons. They have a lot to teach us. For the most part our grandparents are a valuable source of advice, and they love us more than we may realize. Simple visits from their children and grandchildren bring so much joy to them. So, for those of you who live near your grandparents, I encourage you to visit them at least weekly. Listen to their stories and learn from them.
I am fortunate to have one of the coolest people on the face of the earth as a blood relative...my grandpa J Malan Heslop. His wife, my beautiful grandma Fae Stokes Heslop passed away in March of 2009, just shy of their 65th wedding anniversary. To help him with the transition and with his declining health, and to just spend more time with him, I lived with him for about a year. During that time I heard many stories about his childhood, his courtship with my grandmother, and the raising of their cute family. I found myself laughing so often at his brilliant sense of humor.
I no longer live with my grandpa, but when I moved out I swore to myself that I would continue to visit him weekly. Well, life gets in the way and I found that I don't visit him nearly as often as I should. By creating this blog I commit myself to visiting him weekly and to sharing with the readers of this blog his his cute, funny, wise and wonderful comments.
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Click the above photo to see his World War II photo collection.