My Pappy

My dear sweet Pappy has been gone over 5 years now. I'm sad that he and Aaron can't go train chasing together but I am happy he's not in pain anymore. My Pappy was the best. He had a look that completely conveyed how much he loved me.

I've a new hobby that makes me think of him every time I sit down. Some friends and I are making jewelry. Started out as a fun one time get together that has turned into more. We gather at one house, put the kids in the basement to destroy, and bead for a couple of hours. I found out early on that I had a hard time seeing the tiny pieces I was working on, so I went out and bought a pair of magnifying glasses. Pappy worked with his hands on tiny parts of camera's my whole life. He'd come to dinner with the magnifying glasses on his head and was very adept at getting them to land nicely on his nose by raising his eyebrows. I can't sit and concentrate on putting things together, with tools in my hand, without seeing a picture in my mind of my Pappy doing the same thing. Never fails. I wish we could sit down together and do our crafts. How I would love to be in his workshop with a comfortable silence while we each worked. He'd hum something from the Messiah from time to time and I'd cringe. What joy that would be!