Some Memories...

there seems to be a trend, and i'll pick up on it a bit. My memories of Grandma Showalter don't go as far back as some, but I'll take a stab at it. There couldn't be a trip to Grandma's without popcorn and popcorn was sometimes followed by soda cheese and sometimes ice-cream. I remember many a game of Rummikub (spelling) and a weird dominoes with triangle-shaped tiles. But even farther back are memories of the lazy-suzan type spinny thing and blur of touch-lamp and forest. I also remember going back into the game-room(before the games were moved to the shed)/ceramic room to pick out games such as the cartoon card game with the beanesque buttons (memory?) or the hungry hippo or aggravation or sorry!. Perhaps the most famous G-ma game was peggity, which could turn into the battle of the wills or survival of the awakest. Grandma was always a judicious peggity player and it was hard to slip one by her. Rebekah, Jared, and I were playing with her a couple weeks ago and we had to wake her up every turn, but still she hung in there. Other memories include Showalter gatherings, staring at the sand and fan, listeing to Hank Williams with Marguerite, the carpet, getting games from behind the sofa, marbles, the river and snow, glass sliding cupboards, checkered chairs frequented by cats, being curious but afraid of the wood stove (i think i may have had a bad experience with it), pickupsticks...etc. Many good times were had and Grandma would always be there with an "oooh" and a chuckle and maybe an "i don't know" (sound familiar Mom?) which was an expression of? you name it. A toast to the hostess.
-Dietrich