##Blessed With Four Grandparents
Contest refers to a Grandparent, so here we go with the one I still have memories of.
My Dad's parents we never met, gone long before we arrived.
Mom's parents I remember Granddad being an ill old man in my early childhood with a small terrier dog that allowed very few people into the room protecting his master come hell or high water. So we remain only with memories of the tough old Scottish lady decending down the Streak family line who arrived in Grahams Town in the 1800's.
Gran was born in Koffiefontein, Orange Free State (means coffee fountain) in 1893, I only have one photo of Ouma and Oupa op die stoep (verandah) in the small tin house in Mayfair with an uithuis (toilet outdoors), coal stove, paraffin lighting or candles. Now what memories do I have to tell.... Hummmm
Manners When at a dinner table always ask for a plate to be passed to you, never stretch across or that fork could hit you in the middle of the hand... at speed!
Respect Learn to be a wall flower, sit quietly when adults allowed you in sitting room with them, never speak unless spoken to.
Cleanliness is next to godliness Scrub your neck! Some thing my Gran endeavoured to do was put you in the tin bath in front of the coal stove and scrub you till you were pinked out, hey I'm not part of the dishes.... Guess who only stayed there overnight on one occasion!
No rubber duckies bobbing around or bubbles in sight
Certain memories never leave us, Gran was a strong woman who commanded respect, in every other aspect she was a gem, loved bird life teaching what she knew. Kept a dog that adored her called Princy who when she moved to the coast came to live with us.
Princy disappeared for a couple of weeks looking for her, eventually returning very thin and bedraggled who knows where the venture took him.
When Gran came for her last visit before leaving Princy was so excited he peed all over the place, that spoke volumes of a woman who loved animals, and gave me a strong willed mother as well.
Thought for Today: "A child among elders converses with its ears." - African Proverb
One Photograph my own from who knows when.... All other pics added from Giphy for fun.
