Visiting PawPaw

When we visited PawPaw last night he was very interested in the weather. We told him that it was cold, dreary, rainy and that the weatherman had missed the forcast. Patti then told him that yesterday was December 7 and asked if he remembered what day that was. He shook his head no and she told him it Was Pearl Harbor Day. The conversation then turned into a "remember when" listing:

• We asked him where he was when Pearl Harbor was bombed and he told us he was in California in the Army. With a little help he remembered it was Camp Callan in San Diego. He said he liked to watch the ocean waves at the beach.
• Mom and Patti asked if he remembered when he and Mawmaw took their whole family to California and camped along the way in a LITTLE travel trailer in the summer of 1962.
• While they were on the California camping trip they saw a family who went to bed real early and Mawmaw said, "They went to bed with the chickens." and Shirla replied, "They have chickens in there?!"
• Mom remembered going to visit Harvey and Maybelle and taking a bath in a washtub. She asked him if he'd ever taken a bath in wash tub...he replied, "we used a #2" then he laughed.

When we were laughed out and it was time for us to go home he told us, "Parties like this are good to remember." He is so right, it's good to remember when. Have a blessed rest of the week.