Comments on: It comes upon me hard, sometimes. http://doycetesterman.com/index.php/2009/10/it-comes-upon-me-hard-sometimes/ Perpetual projects and daily obsessions. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:51:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Doyce http://doycetesterman.com/index.php/2009/10/it-comes-upon-me-hard-sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-5479 Doyce Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:39:26 +0000 http://doycetesterman.com/?p=1764#comment-5479 I'd forgotten -- about halfway through that recording -- he talks about going fishing in Germany... ... with grenades. I’d forgotten — about halfway through that recording — he talks about going fishing in Germany…

… with grenades.

]]> By: Doyce http://doycetesterman.com/index.php/2009/10/it-comes-upon-me-hard-sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-5478 Doyce Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:30:44 +0000 http://doycetesterman.com/?p=1764#comment-5478 From what I gather, most of my friends' dads are/were about the same age as my granddad. He was... let's see... 44 when I was born? 45? Somewhere in there. He and my dad owned nigh-adjoining acreage until after I graduated high school; were lived all of four miles away from them, with maybe one house in the intervening space. I saw him pretty much every day during the summer and breaks, whenever I was working on the farm. (Which I was, most days I wasn't in school. He taught me to shoot (he was a certified gun safety instructor for something like 30 years), and hunt, and how live traps worked, and how to tell a story out loud. Holy christ he could spin a yarn. http://media.sd.gov:81/sdpb/dakotastories/homefront/TestermanMiller.wma From what I gather, most of my friends’ dads are/were about the same age as my granddad. He was… let’s see… 44 when I was born? 45? Somewhere in there.

He and my dad owned nigh-adjoining acreage until after I graduated high school; were lived all of four miles away from them, with maybe one house in the intervening space. I saw him pretty much every day during the summer and breaks, whenever I was working on the farm. (Which I was, most days I wasn’t in school.

He taught me to shoot (he was a certified gun safety instructor for something like 30 years), and hunt, and how live traps worked, and how to tell a story out loud.

Holy christ he could spin a yarn.

http://media.sd.gov:81/sdpb/dakotastories/homefront/TestermanMiller.wma

]]> By: Chuck http://doycetesterman.com/index.php/2009/10/it-comes-upon-me-hard-sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-5476 Chuck Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:06:31 +0000 http://doycetesterman.com/?p=1764#comment-5476 I never met either of my grandfathers, sadly. Both died not long before I was born. -- c. I never met either of my grandfathers, sadly. Both died not long before I was born.

– c.
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