Victor Douglas Harwood (my grampa)

My dear grandfather.
I love you so much...

While i've been in Canada i've been learning more about grampa's life before he met my gramma, and also random scientific facts..
For instance, did you know, most plants are made up of three things, cellulose, hemi-cellulose, and lignin?
Grampa has a phD in science, but when he talks to me he tells me baby facts and says things very slowly, emphasizing the syllables in words he thinks i might not know.
Lig-NIN.
i'm twenty-eight now. i love him to bits. he is a crotchety old stickler at times, but as kind as god.
i speak slowly to him because his ears do not hear so well since his heart attack a few years back.
i love the face he's making in the shot above.
he walks much more slowly now then i remember and he is more hunched.
he has had every terrible thing imaginable happen to his physical body in the five years since i last saw him.
but his mind is fine.
he remembers paying eleven hundred dollars for an Austin car in 1952 because his friend had one, and he had let him drive it...
lol. boys.
apparently his income at that point was about thirty five hundred a year but living expenses were low.
at that particular time in his life he was working for a company where his job was to analyse how much DDT residue was left on fruit when it reached the consumer.
hardly any, he says.