(Grandpa Hale and me on his birthday.) Every summer I'd visit my grandparents for several weeks. Grandpa Hale worked for the county. He delivered gasoline to road crew trucks and I loved to go with him on his daily route.

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Suzanne Beecher

My Grandpa Hale had a wood-working room in his basement. He was quite a carpenter and he built me the kitchen cabinet in the photo. That's Moochie, my dog, sitting on the floor.

I was an only child, so Moochie was my best buddy, but he had a bad habit. He chewed holes in blankets. There wasn't one single blanket in our house that didn't have holes in it.