today is grandpa’s birthday. he would have been 86. wow, grandma was a cradle robber! he was just really lucky that no one else got to her first.
(she was engaged twice before marrying my grandfather, but grandpa’s engagement was the only one that took.)
mom said that when grandpa was sick in the hospital, she asked him to please send her a sign if there is a heaven and he gets there before her. she said what she wanted was for, wherever she was, please make it rain on his birthday.
(her original idea had to do with just one video conference, please. she changed to the rain, though, because she thought this would be really easy for him to do.)
the past couple days have been warm and sunny. yet, this morning when she left to take my dad to the airport as they pulled out of the garage it started to rain. it rained the whole way from barberton to cleaveland.
mom asked her brother, ‘what do you think?’
and he said, ‘i can tell you i’m glad it rained.’
me, too.