Category: Children
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Brandy Pony (Part 1)
Grandpa gets a pony for his Birthday, Brandy. Brandy, as it turns out, is a thoroughly stubborn animal who fights Grandpa every step of the way. Hours of watching and reading westerns couldn’t prepare him for this bucking bronco. It doesn’t help matters that Grandpa knows neither head or hoof about caring for horses, much…
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Driver’s Test
Grandpa tells the story of his first and only driver’s test, with his family’s old stick shift 1970 (and 1/2) Ford Torino. On this driver’s test the officer giving the test asked Grandpa a very important question, “Do you know how fast you are going?”
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Navigator Brian
Brian the Navigator, Grandpa Hill’s True Story about one of his son’s amazing ability to know where he was and which way to go at the age of five. This story recounts what really happened to Grandpa Hill and his family in the summer of 1985.
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How to Lose Teeth Fast
Losing My Two Front Teeth is a story for Grandpa Hill’s 8 children, 22 grand children, and all children. Four of his grandchildren are ready for bed, listening to Grandpa Hill recall the fun time when he had his teeth and played in the clean sheets that his mother had washed and hung to dry.Losing…
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Lost With The Kitties
In this Grandpa Hill Slightly Wiser True Story, Grandpa loses a child at the Columbus Ohio City Zoo. Grandpa Hill had a system to make it easy for a lost child to find him. He wears a yellow shirt. The yellow shirt system failed and Brian, the lost child, had an adventure while lost with…
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First Time Trout Fishing
In Trout Fishing for The First Time Grandpa Hill spends his last day of his first vacation away from home trout fishing. Way back in the 1970’s Grandpa Hill fished at a pond in Northport Michigan. The pond was completely full of brook trout! More trout than Grandpa had ever seen all in one place…
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Sledding in the Summer?
Can Grandpa really go sledding in the summer? According to his true story he sure can. Listen as he relates what fun he had with his family sledding on the hills at his Grandma and Grandpa’s place near Northport Michigan in the early 1960’s, IN THE SUMMER! Gorf doesn’t want to go sledding until he…
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I Want To Go Camping! (Part 2)
When I Finally Go Camping! Grandpa tells the rest of the story of a time he really wanted to go camping. In Part 2, Grandpa now has enough platelets, and finally goes camping with his brother in Canada; where they meet several mosquitoes, a skunk, and not enough fish. Gorf is worried that Grandpa quits…
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I Want to Go Camping! (Part 1)
Grandpa tells the story of a time he really wanted to go camping. A disastrous turn in his health threatens the trip. Grandpa’s platelets were mysteriously and quite completely gone! Listen to his intense efforts to to get those tiny little cells called platelets back up to normal safe levels. Marshmallow, the raccoon and Gorf,…
