Backyard 687 W. Main

Great-grandson Robby Ramser with Grandma

This is from the summer of 1988.  Grandma was walking Robby in the backyard where the garden used to be.  You can see by the picture how large the garden was and when you were a kid and worked in it with Grandpa it seemed to never end.

Fishing

Bertha & Earl baiting a fishing hook

Earl & Carl with Fish

One of Bertha's pleasures was fishing.  From her childhood she enjoyed fishing and looking for crayfish in the creek in New Waterford.  This is also a common interest that her and Earl shared. They took many vacations where fishing was on the agenda.  Jeff and I accompanied Earl & Bertha to that hotspot Carrabelle Florida where you went deep sea fishing all day. Grandma caught a 40lb Grouper.  The last time Grandma & I went deep sea fishing was in St. Petersburg on a 1/2 day trip, where Grandma caught several fish.  She told me she found fishing very peaceful.

Earl & fish

  

Buttons

Old Buttons

When we were kids Grandma had an old can that was filled with what seemed like a thousand buttons. There were buttons of every size, color, metal ones and plastic, and some even had crystals.  These buttons were collected for years and a lot of them were her mothers.  We would dump them on the table and look at them and ask her questions about them and tried to see who could find the fanciest button.  We would string some of them or gather them into colors and sizes.  Today it seems hard to believe something so simple was so fun.