"The Summers Spent with my Grandmother" Part two

Part two:

She also had chickens and goats that we had to take care of. She would tell us, "If you can not take care of an animal, how are you going to take care of yourself?" So every morning after breakfast, we would go to the chicken house, collect the eggs, and feed and water the chickens. I always laughed at the way they would run around pecking at the ground when we would throw the feed over the fence to them. Every now and then one would get out and we would have to chase it and try to catch it to put it back. I would chase a hen but not a rooster; I was terrified of them as a child. When I was very young, I was going around my grandmother's house to get a tricycle, and she had a mean rooster. He flew up at me, and started chasing me, and scared me to death. I ran screaming to her, and all she could do was laugh. She took me back around there and told me,"Baby, you can not run from what scares you. Face it, and be stronger." She gave me a stick and walked around there with me; needless to say we had chicken and dumplings that night.


When the sun would go down and it became a little cooler, my grandmother and I would spend so many nights sitting in her porch swing laughing and singing. She would tell me stories of her childhood and her and my grandfather. The lessons I learned from her are priceless. She was a very strong and wise woman. She showed courage and strength all through her life and all the way up to the day she passed away. Even then knowing it was time she showed great strength. She had a massive stroke and could not talk or move anymore.It was very hard to know that she was going to be leaving us soon, but all her pain and struggles are over now. My grandmother has always been a very important part of my life. I learned so very much from her. How to love, how to forgive, how to be a better person in a very bad situation, and how to hold my head high and be proud of who I am and where i come from. She passed in DEC.2010, little over a month before her 80th birthday. When we lost her, we lost the glue and backbone of our family. I only hope that I can honor her memory and live the way she taught us every day that we were with her. Heaven has a beautiful angel, and the rose gardens will be just as beautiful as the one she had when she was here on earth.

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