For a long while now I have been thinking about him

Hello All,                                                                                                                                                         During this past week I have been very fortunate to have gotten to get a whole other year of age older, and from the previous week of from Staint Patrick's day I was trying to share a lot of my own memories from certain years while growing up and just today something really interesting and inspiring popped into my head. I had thought about my current Facebook profile picture and was thinking and wondering if I should talk of the man in it that is beside me.... he was my granddaddy from on my mother's side of the family and yes in a way I have talked about him here before. But it's also been a very long amount of time since it's needed to add more love about him. I know that most times of when you are here I am one way or another talking about stuff that I like to chat about of say cartoons or my many other type of entertainment and yes even about Spider-Man and the medium he comes from comics quite a lot....                                                                           For a while now on my Facebook page I have had the profile picture of myself and Ben Powers just after my graduation from my high school of Hanford High school seen here.        

                                                                               That was way back in June on the first Friday, which was the seventh of nineteen ninety one.                                                                                                                                                     From as far back as I can remember Ben was a man of inspiration to all of his grandchildren and when I tell you he respected you at least more than once his ten including Lyle and Merri Watson knew that he gave you that opportunity more than once. More than anything Granddaddy really loved his work at the metal shop he worked for a company known as Lummer metals in Columbus, Georgia where he mainly grew up. He loved his chance to spend time with God when he faced a human challenge he couldn't understand... in fact I remember that when I was visiting him and my grandma his wife Evelyn "Ebby" Day Powers over the summers as a child he took me to church with him on Sunday mornings and Wednesday's evenings for men Bible studies and dinners. He had two sisters one who took care their mother who was known as Big Mama to everyone,  who knew her no matter who knew her. Ben and Evelyn lived on 21st street at 1311 till he passed away in April of 2004.                                                                                      The one thing that I know that I truly got from Ben Powers was something very rare indeed besides his caring love and respect,  or at least I want to believe it came from knowing him, that is that I have great patience of dealing with a lot of stuff in the area of wherever I am. Another thing that Granddaddy loved to do was tell stories and jokes that truly made anyone who was listening think about it for a long while, one story that he made up was called "Raw Head and Bloody Bones" but at the same time one of his greatest jokes was with me anyway "Oh Go Ahead.." that would be me and his response was "Hey did you just call me a goat head..." 

    Another thing that I remember about my granddaddy was he was a collector of match books he had at least in nineteen eighty six four big plastic tubs from Rubbermaid full to top of each one. He just picked them up from every restaurant, every hotel, and fuel center ( a gas station), and of course grocery stores too. I think that he even had a few interesting international match books in his overall collection, the reason as to why he had them I remember asking him once and he said "I  have collected them so I can remember my travels from place to place of where I have been." Funny thing was he never smoked a pipe or a cigar, or even a cigarette that I can ever recall. He also loved to help me on putting puzzles together, we put super heroes ones together to ones of Star Trek puzzles and even one of the grand canyon at Christmas time in nineteen ninety four. I remember as well thar he had a scar on his right palm of his hand forever from when he was a child. He told me the story of how he got that scar and it's very interesting indeed. When he and his brothers were on a picnic with their family they were playing with a set of sardeen containers and their pop guns.... or maybe back then it was a kid and his sling shot, Ben and his brothers were slinging pebbles at their sardeen containers and his went an fell into the stream and he went to go pick it up from the water and the palm of right hand tore along tendon and outward from his thumb and His Mama wasn't a happy woman that given weekend at all... he got his hand to heal but he has a forever mark as a reminder to never play with sardeen containers again!                                                    Then when was twelve he showed me how to use wood craving tools and help me make a cage for Battle Cat from He‐ Man and the Masters of the universe toyline.  He enjoyed taking me his grandson out to a restaurant known as Captain D in Columbus,  Georgia where we would enjoy hush puppies and cod fish with a glass of sweet tea. One of the many things that I will always remember about my granddaddy was that when we flew from Pasco to Seattle to Atlanta and before heading to their home in Columbus we would go and spend about two hours at Six Flags theme park on our first day                                                                                       

                                        of our two weeks of visiting them in those summers of the past! In that picture right there was one of our last trips to Six Flags over Georgia in nineteen eighty three with my sister Kylie and like each other time that was a blast to for us and our cousins Dan and James Simmons. Oh and just in case you're wondering that loin was named Leo a common name for a loin stuffed or not....                                                                         More memories of Granddaddy Ben Powers coming soon....