Archive: Enjoy a little time with our granddaughters this week
Posted By RichC on July 26, 2025
Brenda and I enjoyed a little babysitting visit to Whitehouse, Ohio this past week and decided the ridiculously HOT weather would be great to 
visit my brother Ron and his wife Claire’s retirement property on Lake Erie … “where there would be a breeze” … NOT!
The breeze if any was from the south and it was in the 90s with a heat index likely over 100 degrees. Still we – well I mean I – had a good time revisiting the property and neighborhood where I grew up. It has definitely changed, but in talking with my brother Ron who is planning on building (plans submitted), says the area still has many of the same families in ownership as when we were kids. The jabber-box that I am sometimes, I walked our granddaughters along the beach area (noticing the sandcastle left by Ron and Claire and their granddaughters the day before) and then back to the “crick” and dike behind Lagoon Drive. We walked up to the community beach area (in the heat) and I rambled on about clearing the rocks and cutting the weeds for our baseball field. It seemed much larger, as did our yard, back then???
We drove down to the other west-end community beach where my grandmother Bluhm would set up her easel and then charcoal sketched another one of my favorite paintings — she added “boys walking” (I suspect me and my brother and it hangs in our bedroom today). Obviously, only after thinking about this, I realized that I’ve mentioned it before — a sign that I’m a grandfather and am getting old?
Those were definitely days that both my brother and I look back on fondly … and “now” sort of wish that they could have lasted much longer. My grandma Bluhm died in 1970, only a year after my namesake grandfather back in 1969 (link) … but my memories of them are strong.
The girls enjoyed playing the piano (now taking lessons) with Oma and “over doctoring” Bompa by adding a couple bandaid to my eyes! We had a fun time.
As always, we enjoy being with them and visiting Katelyn and Drew’s beautiful house and near perfect yard and neighborhood. As is our unusual custom … the extended long waving goodbye as we head for home.
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