Man oh man. Anyone who has been following me for any length of time knows how much my grandparents mean to me. Losing my father to the receiving end of a bullet when I was a kid and my mother not being a parent left me with one of my favorites aunts being like a big sister and a best friend to this day and my grandparents being the center of my universe in that regard. My grandfather is the strongest man I have ever known. A sharpshooter in the Marines in WW2 and a fisherman out at sea 5 or 6 days a week the rest of his life. An old school waterman on the Atlantic and the Chesapeake. Big old wooden oyster boats and a small crew of 2 or 3 additional men living with him on the boats over the years when he is out at sea. Now he is 90 and he sticks to his smaller boat and just does crabs now. He still does manual labor 5 everyday. Out on his boat pulling his crab pots 5 days a week and either making crab new crab post by hand, chopping wood or working in his garden when he’s not on the water. His garden however is the size of a frickin’ small farm practically. lol.
….Well almost 2 weeks ago now he had a stroke. That’s why I have not been too chatty. Things like this bring out the bad AND the good in any family and mine is no different. It brings up an inner conflict in me as well. I grew up on the coast of Virginia in a city called Hampton. That never felt like home to me however. Home to me was 2 hours away at my grandparents house and the pictures below are just a small part of the reason why. The main reason was the 2 amazing people who lived there ( grandparents). Bottom line , my family is there and I lived there until I was a teenager but I have lived on the west coast ever since so most of my life has been spent out west. I want and even need to be closer to my family but my life and my work has been and is out west. If only I could be in 2 places at once.
The pics below are just a tiny part of my grandparents house. It’s the dock out back. They live on several acres right on this water in Virginia. It’s so beautiful. So many memories. The most special place in the world to me
bet you wish your granddaddy could catch and steam crabs like these too huh? lol. Yep. Steamed Blue Crabs with the best spices all over them. My Grandaddy caught and cooked these …xo





















