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My maternal grandparents retired to Collins from Kansas City, Kansas. Grandpa was a butcher and Navy veteran. Grandma worked for Sunshine Biscuit Company, now part of Keebler/Kellogg, making cookies, after WWII when she built bombs and B-25 parts in KC to support the war effort.
I have multiple childhood memories of spending my summers down here in 'the country' with them. Back then it was a 4 hour drive from Kansas City and they lived several miles down a dirt road. I had no idea where I was but when we stopped in Osceola for ice cream I knew we were getting close. Do any Locals remember when 54 and 13 was a 4-way stop and the R&S gas station restaurant was only open from 5am to 2pm? ...and there was nothing else there.Â
My how things have changed. They had a party line phone for all the houses in the area. You had to know what your ring was and it wasn't a ring tone. Theirs was short ring, long ring. Nothing like now with cell phones, the internet and a computer that interfaces with the world from anywhere. I even have perfect cell coverage at GZ!
Although this city kid had an Atari and his own TV back in the big city, they had one TV that Grandpa constantly had golf on that he could watch from the kitchen table. Grandma would crouchet or be busy preserving fruit or something in mason jars. Back then I was in grade school and I could leave for hours on my banana-seat bicycle down here as long as I never went where the pavement started and I was back by dark. These were the 'olden days' as my kids put it.
I have many fond memories of 'the country'. Here is a short list of memories and random things I am thankful for and learned from my grandparents:   How to ride a horse, fish, drive and fix a tractor, split wood, milk a cow, read books, explore the wilderness on my own, grow vegetables & herbs and preserve them, jump out the top of a barn, first ride on a motorcycle, make jelly and we played a lot of chess. Â
Grandma would stop at Nicholson's with the big red roof and I would pick a new puzzle book every year when she would bring me down for the summer. (Now it is a fireworks store.) Grandpa would save all the crosswords from the paper for the whole year. We all would sit at the table and work them together, finishing the book and most of the crosswords when it was time to go back to the big city in August.
My grandparents have long since passed but we still visit them here several times a year. This cache is placed near where they are resting. So, in their honor, here is a little puzzle cache for you to work on. It may take you several tries, but just like a crossword, hopefully it will work out.
Thank you for indulging my trip down memory lane.
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