grandparents, childhood memories, and tomato pie

Tomorrow is Mother's Day. My entire family is from the Norristown, Pennsylvania area, just outside of Philadelphia. So, today we visited with my dad's parents to celebrate mommom. My mom's parents, Aaron & Beatrice - aka "Poppop Aaron & Mommom Bea" went to be with Jesus December 2005 and May 2005 respectively. We miss them.

But today was a sweet day. And my Poppop Bob is also a WWII Navy Vet (Poppop Aaron was too). He was on the USS Iowa BB (Big Battleship) 61, stationed in the Pacific. I LOVE his stories. He was definitely a crazy, stereotypical sailor!! And freakin' good looking too! ;) Thankfully I was able to get a couple of stories on video today. I will post them when I can figure it out. :)



My Mommom "Rachie". Her name is Alma Rae.



Dad & his dad, Poppop Bob, going over "things".



This is part of my walk down "memory lane" at their house. This is Poppop's work area. I just had to take some pictures of it to keep a visual memory. As a child I remember checking everything out...and running around like a mad woman in their basement :)



They've had a fridge in the basement since I was born...actually it's probably been since the 1950s :) It's always been stocked with beer and soda. Back in the day it was cans of Budweiser, or the like. They've since graduated to bottles of Yuengling.



We sat outside on their back deck for a while. I liked the look of the old white t-shirts on the line...



...and we admired the Azalea bush...



And we watched the little birds (I can't remember what they're called) go in and out of this birdhouse.



And then we ate some tomato pie with red sauce from Corropolese's Deli in Norristown. So dang good. It's basically cold pizza - but so much better. Love it.

posted by eurorebs at 11:44 PM