My wife’s grandfather just passed at 204. He was as lucid as he ever could be. Hard to believe he was as old as he was by simply listening to him. The stories he told!!!
I'm sure you meant 104. My late Father, who would have been 103 this year used to me about the horse drawn ice wagon coming around to deliver ice for their icebox. Until he died in 1988, he called a refrigerator, an "icebox."
“The stories he told!!!”
My Grandpa went through the Bolshevik Revolution. His family had a small, prosperous farm near Kiev.
He told me that the Bolsheviks, crying “For the people!” (Kamal Harris’s campaign slogan.) came on to their farm and took everything the had.
To the day he died he was totally p.o.ed the Communist took the white stallion that he helped in the delivery of it’s birth. He loved that horse!
Later he talked about the union’s corruption after he fought for unions in the 20’s.
He taught me to believe in freedom and to pay attention.