The picture on the top is the backing on my great grandmothers crazy quilt. The second picture is another part of it a little closer up.

I thought I would record what I remember of my great grandmother Mary, which isn't much.

I do remember going to her house as a small girl. She had huge sugar cookies.

Also she had a little basket that she kept scrap paper for us kids to draw on.

The other thing I remember is that she and my mother would go into the garden if it was spring or summer. Her rhubarb was the biggest I had ever seen (before or since). Often she would give my mother various vegetables.

My great-aunt Grace lived in part of the house. Her apartment was more modern. It was almost like it was in color and the rest of the house was in black and white. She had panelling and carpet. Aunt Grace had lived just across the road in a brand new house. My mother was the first houseguest. However, that night the house was struck by lightning and burned down. My mother was always afraid of houses burning down after that. Oh, when they tried to call the fire department, someone else was on the line (they had party lines back then) and wouldn't get off the phone so they could call.

I remember when I was older, my extended family went camping on the land across from great grandmas. Much later, I came to be friends with one of the people who ended up buying that land.