So we have this little apple tree that's fairly small and stunted. Grows apples pretty well but they're smallish and I usually don't protect them from the birds and bees and ants and beetles.
This year I made a good effort to spray several times, and pump water into the tree often. Lots and lots of nice, good sized apples have popped up. Hundreds.
So I'm just cutting and cutting and cutting apples, treating them with lemon juice and bagging / freezing them for future cobblers, pies, cakes, applesauce.
It dawned on me that my grandmother in Vermont was doing the exact same thing for her family 100 years ago. Nice to feel that connection.
Moreover, the poor girl died at 24 years old when my dad was 1, in 1923. I'm 60 now, so my sons are as old or older than she ever was. Makes me see her as just a girl, frozen in time.
So that made this feeling of connection even more poignant, maybe even a little melancholy.
Anybody else have these unique, important family tidbits ?
My family tidbits mostly involve the passing down if second sight from one generation to another. Aunt Kate had it, although it may skip a generation. I don't think anyone in my mother's generation had it. I did feel a kinship with my grandmother the last time Halley's Comet came through. My daughter and I drive out past the light pollution to see it. I thought of my grandmother being a girl in western Wyoming and seeing it.