by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Faith, Grandpop
GRANDPOP – THE POST HOLE DIGGER Howdy Friends! It had been a long day. Not as hot a the past few weeks, but warm enough to work up a sweat. This stretch of fence hadn’t been neglected, but Grandpop had not given it the attention it should have had. For about 20 years...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Grandpop
GRANDPOP: 4th OF JULY AND INDEPENDENCE Howdy Friends! A few friends and family had made the trip to Grandpop’s ranch for Independence Day, not as many as years past, but enough to make a fun gathering. As usual, I’d lost my share of horseshoe matches. Even though...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Faith, Grandpop
MEMORIAL DAY AND GRANDPOP Howdy Friends! My cousin’s younger sister and her children had swung by to spend the weekend. Memorial Day being the big kick-off to summer and all. I heard the girls giggling in the barn as soon as I pulled in. I knew they’d be romping. As...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Faith, Grandpop
Howdy Friends! Dinner had been over a while. Most everyone had left for the long drive back home. We decided to spend the night. Maybe the weekend. Grandpop moved to the porch, to watch the sunset. The young lad, glued as he was to the old man, followed with him....
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Grandpop
GRANDPOP – MAKING DECISIONS Howdy Friends! They’d been in the barn a while. Grandpop and the lad. I could see that as soon as I walked in out of the rain, by the size of the hay bale stack the flat bed wagon. It was a cinch. Rainy days like this one, it was a...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Faith, Grandpop
Howdy Folks! Riding in the New year was a tradition we didn’t do as often as we used too. Grandpop had a year every now and then, in recent years, when he just wasn’t up to it. And I worried since he’d retired ol’ Blue a few years back his...
