Time…
Where does it go?
How much do you have left?
Or, does anyone have left.
Be thankful…
Be grateful…
Be humble…
My aunt Patty Micka (my late Father’s youngest sister) sent me this photo today.
I can’t tell you what goes through my mind as I see this image…
It’s crazy to think, that I never even met these 2 people, but without them… my life may have been very different, if at all!?
That's my Dad's Father... Alois Hanseter… aka, my Grandpa Hanseter, who died in 1961, several years before I was even born.
He is with his Mother... on the back steps of the house on 10th Street, that I grew up in (Oshkosh Wisconsin).
He was clearly a very hardworking blue collar man, who fathered 7 children, but sadly he passed away at age 49… leaving his wife (my Grandma) Ann Rose Hanseter to raise all the kids (4 Girls and 3 Boys)… she lived to 94.
The photo must be from the late 1940's or 1950's…
The pump in this photo was often our daily supply of fresh well-water.
Oh, and that Apple Tree (the leaves above their head) was where I built my first tree-house and picked apples for my Mom, to bake apple pies.
As a little boy, I sat on those same steps, playing with Trucks or Army Men and Lincoln-Logs, more times than I can count…
And that back-yard, which appears to have been mostly a Garden or crops 20 years earlier (75 years ago), is where my life was shaped.
From cutting the grass, to raking leaves along with swinging on our swing-set and ultimately building skateboard ramps.
The late 1960’s, 1970’s and early 1980’s, this was my home.
The pic of me, is from about 1970, with those same steps to the right of the fence.
Wow… where did 50 years go?
The same place today will go when the clock strikes midnight tonight… into our past… then we start another new day.
Appreciate it… each minute, every moment.., I know I am, and I will.
Thank you for reading…
Stevie Rachelle
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