Nowadays He...
These days my grandfather is retired once again, this is his third time retiring, and he is 77 years old as of May 5, 2014. For the last decade, he worked in a compounding drug company as a deliveryman, repair guy, and a set up guy for wheelchairs and other handicap electronics. This is also how he met his current wife, Grandma Mary. He and Grandma Marry are currently residing in our summer home down in Weekapaug, Rhode Island until they move down to Alabama to live closer to the grandkids, on Grandma Mary’s side, who are one and five years old. This is a bit heartbreaking for me because I don’t get to see him very often, and now a slim sometimes will turn into a rarely; I haven’t been able to share very many memories with him. Grandpa is still full of energy and shares it around our family. We see him and run because we’re afraid he’s going to give another lecture. He can’t help it though, watching us about to make the same mistakes that he has already lived through sparks a lecture inside of him, just to warn us about the future; he lectures us to help, not because he wants to torture us. He’s been getting golf in with all the hot weather and plans on watching us as we journey through our own lives.
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Grandpa’s life has had a major impact on the way our family lives our lives today. One of Grandpa’s other hobbies that I failed to mention earlier is that he loves to draw, and my brother Will and cousin Kayla are art majors in college now. The way sports impacted his life, is making the same impact on all of our lives too. We live outside playing different sports all year round. If Grandpa hadn’t taken his kids skiing when they were young, my family wouldn’t be a huge snowboarding family, and I wouldn’t be going to Holderness School, trying to take my snowboarding to the next level. All of Grandpa’s grandchildren are avidly into science just as he is. My brothers Jay and Christian are a science major, and my cousins Jesse and Ross are science majors as well. Grandpa still has grandchildren that haven’t grown to know what they want to do, but odds are that they will chose to do something that relates to Grandpa without them even knowing it.
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