If you follow me on twitter or facebook then you would have heard about my grandma dying on the 6th of this month. That is why I have been off the internet for quite awhile. Even though she was 94 years old it was still a huge shock since she has been one of the strongest women I have ever know. My wonderful job gave me the day off when I found out she was doing badly. I was happy that I could spend the day with my mom and family and that I could help out so my mom wouldnt have to stress about little things.
She was one of the strongest women I have known and one of the funniest she had a really dry wit that I just loved. She lived over on Vancouver Island and growing up we would go and visit every August. I am not a huge fan of hot weather but for some reason I always have loved August. It wasent until we started reminiscing about visiting grandma and grandpa that I realized it was because of our visits that I liked August so much. When we would go over and visit we had to take a ferry to the island then drive for about 2 hours and we would always get there about lunch time. When we pulled up we went straight in for lunch and she would have fresh buns and tomatoes from her garden with cheese and ham and we would make sandwiches. That still is my favourite type of lunch to have in the hot weather. Everytime we would go visit we would go to a local farm that had a little market and we would make pickles or can tomatoes or peaches. We would have an assembly line in her turquoise 1950s style kitchen and can food and laugh. She also always had the best garden it was unbelievable how big everything would grow. There was also no lazing around at grandmas we were always going and doing things or working on projects around the house and it was tons of fun.
After my grandpa died she lived in their house for a couple of years then she started needing help so she came over and lived with us. 10 years ago she had to move into a care facility which she wasent to happy about...but really I don't think anyone is to happy about that. It was a really nice place and it was very close to my mom so she could go up almost everyday and visit. It hit me pretty hard losing her so I thought I would take a few days off from blogging and other internet things. I even took sometime off from sewing but I am back and Im working on my fall bags which I will have photos of pretty soon.
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