Leaves in the Attic

Posted by Jerold Austin

For as long as I can remember, my grandfather has been watching cowboy movies on TV. He calls them “westerns” and he loves to sit in his recliner and doze in and out of sleep in the afternoons when he watches them. He probably has seen every cowboy movie ever made, and I know this because whenever I am with him while he is watching them, he always tells me exactly what will happen next in the movie. Sometimes my grandmother even enjoys watching them with them. In fact, I tried to get her to go to the mall with me recently on a Saturday, and she said she could not go because she watches old westerns with my grandfather on Saturdays. They have a satellite TV package from www.expertsatellite.com that gets them the Encore Westerns channel. They probably would be totally content with having that channel and no other channels. I think it is really sweet that after their 63 years of marriage, they are able to share a hobby like watching westerns together. I hope that someday my grandkids are able to say the same thing about me and my husband.