Happy birthday to my grandfather!
He tells me he’s 94… the things this guy has seen. I’m going to start logging a few of my favorite grandfather stories:
Grandfather has told me many of the same stories time and again. One of them usually comes up when we’re flying from one place to another and we’re looking at planes. He talks about his grandmother taking him down to the beach as a young boy in Scotland. The military had a display going on with different tanks and planes and what not on platforms on the sand so the people could marvel at the latest technology. Now grandfather told me this story many times but once a few years ago he couldn’t quite put his finger on a word as he was telling the story. He said, “uh, you know… what do they call those with the two wings?” This is the first time I realized that grandfather’s first plane was a biplane! It just never dawned on me before.