A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her
own childhood was like: "We used to skate outside on a pond
in the winter. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from 
a tree in our front yard. We rode our horses everyday thru 
the meadows and fields around our home.

We picked wild blackberries in the woods near our home..."

The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this all in.
At last she said, 

"I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner GRANDMA !"