"Marie" History

Had a good day today. I babysat Marilyn (Manson) while Nathan gad about town. He went fishing today and caught 6 little fish. Kat went with him. He went back to LaGrange around 5:30. It was nice seeing him for the short while that I did. I got a kick out of seeing him coming home from fishing wearing a fishing hat and carrying two rods (one of them was Uncle George's old rod).
Barry and I mowed and trimmed bushes and trees at the rent house. We worked very hard and I got red-faced.
Tiffany came over today. We enjoyed going through old pictures together. I gave her a family history lesson of who was who and how they were all related. We discussed how she was named after her grandma. I stressed that she should save precious things because in the future she will pull down her box of history and thoroughly enjoy going through it. She said we would probably never throw her away because she was history (her name being Marie). I laughed so hard. She is so cute. I read a love letter dated 1924 from my grandfather to my grandmother. When I started reading it out loud, "My Dearest Sweetheart," Tiffany squealed and said, "I bet he had a crush on her." I then told her that they were married and had three kids, Mom was four years old when that letter was written. Tiff's mother has a tendency to throw good things away just because she is tired of them, or they happen to be in way. I hope I got through to Tiff. I'd hate to see her mom throw away all these pictures I'll be handing over to them. I found three of those round view-master picture slides, so I took them to Tiff's house and Ron put them in Josh's toy slide projector. On a purple wall, we watched projections of Ma-moo, Rick, and Ron dated back in the 50's, taken in the driveway of the house we were in. The kids loved it, and so did Ron and I. Josh thought that was a picture of him.
Well, I am so tired, I am going to go to bed now. Tomorrow is a big day...Barry and I are going to see "Spiderman" with Tiff, Josh, and Ron. :)