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Granddaughter: “Oh pleez papa, can I swing on the gate?”
Grandpa: “No, darlin’, you’re a big girl and you might pull the hinges out.”
April 3, 2014 by georgettesullins
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Granddaughter: “Oh pleez papa, can I swing on the gate?”
Grandpa: “No, darlin’, you’re a big girl and you might pull the hinges out.”
Posted in Family Life, Parenting, Texas, The Country | Tagged gates, granddaughters and grandfathers, love, playing at the farm, swinging | 44 Comments
oh, that is precious!!! thanks, dear georgette! you’re first ‘out of the gate’ this morning! 😀
Thanks again for hosting and your help last week. Enjoying the inspiration for my Thursday post.
That is JUST precious, Georgette! I love it!
It was so true, so true. Perhaps the only rule on the farm where the girls were concerned, was to not swing on the gate. It took mommy and daddy to help them not disappoint papa for disobeying.
reminds me of a picture we have of one of our daughters @ that age…they grow up so fast..she’s now 32
And this is the mother of one and not far from 30. I’m so glad I thought to take a photo back then, in the days of film not digital. They do grow up fast and then we are blessed with grandchildren and here we go again. 🙂
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Awww ….
MJ
Thanks for visiting, MJ. You may have seen these pictures before, but when I saw the meme, I just had to edit and tweak a bit.
Sweet pictures and even sweeter memories, I bet.
These photos were taken before digital. Kind of proud of myself for having a camera at that moment. So glad I snapped these two during a very busy time loaded with kid gear. I think I always want to sign off with you, “I know you know.”
Love the fence and the sweet girls, too. 🙂 Have a great day!
Too cute! Love the dialogue.
Aw, how can anyone resist that. Sweet pics.
Thank you for the pictorial panorama. You have a home-run with the grand-children and their conversation!
These two are my daughters aged late twenties and early thirties now. They have their own now and get to instill rules like “Papa” used to do…and mom and dad.
Such cuites! There was nothing more fun than swinging on a gate as a child…it’s still pretty fun. 🙂
Swinging on a gate and sliding down bannisters. Oh, my bros, sister and I were bad. Still, I’m glad our girls had to learn the same lessons we did, “Please don’t…”
That child is adorable and probably still is! 🙂 And how wise you were to catch her on your own candid camera.
That child has a son, and I can’t help but see his mother in him. Nothing like it, right Dor?
What a lovely time and place!
It was a memorable time.
HI This is a lovely post. How cold you not say yes to that little sweetie.
Margaret, so glad you stopped by. Thank you for commenting and yes, I do visit you, but just can’t get a comment to take from wp to blogspot. I will keep trying as I do successfully post to TWG.
Such precious images!
Visiting from Good Fences,
~Lindy
My fences
What cute shots!
How can papa not give in to that little cutie pie? She’s adorable!
Really and thank you. She couldn’t have weighed that much. But rules were rules.
Awww……sweet!
Oh my goodness, they are adorable.
What sweet photos! And who doesn’t want to swing on a gate? You know, it’s really a little strange, but when I first moved to Texas and started hanging out in the country, I just loved being the one to hop out of the truck and open or close the gate. Cattle guards are good, but they’re not as much fun. Maybe opening and closing gates is the grown-up version of swinging on them.
Interesting you brought up the cattle guard. I’ve considered doing a cattle guard post. I’m always careful walking across it opening and closing the gate. Not losing my balance is more secure wearing my Ariats.
We had two naughty calves slip under the barbed wire fence out onto the road a while back just before it turned dark. Rick got the truck and “cut” them back under the fence with the help of a young man who stopped his vehicle leaving his date in the truck. Since there were two, it was awfully nice of him to lend a hand.
Sooo very sweet!
Thanks, Patrice. I’m enjoying this Good Fences meme.
A delightful little essay in words and pictures. Sometimes life’s limitations are hard to understand… Such a sweet post.
Thank you, Otto. That’s the way it happened one afternoon. I’ll never forget it. Glad I have these pictures to remember. Took these in the age of Fuji and Kodak film, before digital and cell phones.
Warms the heart and brings a smile only family can. Watching the pictures, reading your words made me miss memories of childhood not only of myself with my parents and siblings but with my son when he was that small. Memories and images that me realize no matter how tough life had been, it’s truly a blessing and a gift I need to remember and celebrate always. Thanks for today’s inspiration. God bless…
Thank you for reading, IT. These are the vignettes I take so much pleasure in putting together. These are the moments I want the girls to remember.
I’d forgotten how much fun swinging on a gate was. Thanks. Good luck, Papa in holding strong.
That was the rule. Then they grew up and it was the same rule for their sons.
Oh My, how sweet and adorable♡♡♡ Made me remember that my late father made the little fence around our old house and I played there with him more than half a century ago p;)
Sending you Lots of Love and Hugs from Japan, xoxo Miyako*
Thank you for traveling the distance to TX. Loved your white fence, today. Do you have a photo of the “little fence around” your old house?
Adorable!
Thank you. Both girls are mothers now, enforcing their own rules.