Lemon Meringue Pies Are Love?

[oneighty]

There were three of them looking unfinished because Gramma did not have enough eggs for the Meringue.

It was the end of our short summer stay with Dad's parents in their cottage near Lake Ontario. World war two was still a year or two away.

On the last day of our stay Gramma gave us the Meringue-less lemon pies. Lois, Eunice and I did not care. And with some disbelief we were told we could each eat a whole pie.

Oh it was so good with each delicious bite carefully savored and tasting so good and so forever even unto this day. Grampa and Gramma watched us enjoy their gift of love and treat as their attentive eyes smiled and glistened wet with tears.

We will be returning that same day to the broken home where we exist. There will never be a lemon pie there ever.

Marked on a nearby door jam by Grampa are the marks of our growing older taller year by year visit by visit. Lois Eunice and me in descending order.

Sometimes when no one seemed to be watching I would catch Grammpa fingering the marks he had carved into the wood.

What I wonder was he thinking.

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[JitterbugPerfume]

1. he was thinking

how much he loved those three abused little children , and how helpless he felt to do anything about it Eddie (I think)

you are his namesake , and I know that you got some of your values from him (them)and their pacifist Quaker ways.


Every child needs grandparents like them

[Guava Jelly]

3. Pie!!

I like Pie :evilgrin:

[livetohike]

2. Oneighty, it is good to see you back and writing again

:hi: I love your stories :-).

[Shine]

4. Very nice, 180. Thanks for another one of your cool stories....

In fact, I made my very first homemade lemon meringue pies this summer and they were INCREDIBLE!! Not exactly lo-cal, if ya know what I mean, but hey, they were delicious. :9

:hi:

[oneighty]

5. Stir in generous portion of love is all.

Grandson Shane has a birthday Sunday. His thing is pumpkin pie. I am giving him a pie and a can of whipped cream.

The thought of giving him that reminded me of the lemon pie from long ago.

Shane can (and will share) I know.

But he will remember too one day and spoil someone just a little bit.

That will be nice.

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[Neoma]

6. I don't really like lemon.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear 180..........

This is really beautiful to me....

Thank you...

:hug:

[Redstone]

8. They may very well be.

Redstone

[Parche]

9. lemon

My favorite of all time, but has to have a graham cracker crust..........the only way

[oneighty]

10. Go Navy

Glub glub

Do not let 180 take the helm.

Yes cracker crust.

Old people used lard for flaky crust and rotund bellies. Hahahaha. Never fit into a submarine.

180 EOD