Author Archives: Crazy Grandpa

For the first time in my 62 years on this rock called earth I have no one but my wife and I to cook for. Felt quite strange. Had rock fish stuffed with crab, quite delightful. So wish I was with you. All my love, gramps.

Just wanted to wish my beautiful granddaughter happy birthday and show you the card we sent. I sure hope you got it!

I know it a little late, but I had to figure out how I wanted to do this, so in case you didn’t the birthday card we sent, here it is. Know that we love you with every fiber of our being.

It was difficult deflating all of your floats today, I tried to cry, but I not good, I bottle feelings way too deep. I did take some pictures for you to remember. The top is all the floors I had to deal with. The middle is Madison’s favorite, and bottom is big green “boat” allContinue reading “Closed the pool today”

Hi. I had an image come up on Facebook today from five years ago. It was you Luca. You are not even one years old yet. We (you, grandpa, Madison and your mother) were on a carousal at Kings Dominion. It was a great day. So much fun. I hope I can figure out howContinue reading “Thoughts”

In our backyard make me so happy.

Good morning, sitting here with my nephew Ed going thru ancestry stuff this morning. Looking a long list of relatives that I never knew. It seems that the older I get the more I want to know about the folks that preceeded me on dirty ball.

Writing that date reminded of 20 years ago today the Muslims attacked the world trade center, the pentagon and was trying for the Whitehouse. I was working that morning at Performance Food Group. On another note, this morning I bottled 2 cases of Nebbiolo wine and your grandmother and I harvested basil, she is makingContinue reading “9/11/2021”

Well, Grandpa started this blog for all of you. Neither of us know if we will be alive when you finally read it. I want you to know that it was NEVER EVER my choice. All of you are my very world. The forced estrangement has hurt me so very deeply. You can’t even imagineContinue reading “My babies”