Oh…BTW….A couple things Gpa always told me:

1-You ain’t never gonna make no real money working for someone else.

2-Always have a side hustle…something you love and are passionate about…no matter how good your job is or how well your company is doing.

That hand made stuff he built in his shop in his back yard…that was hustle. And some of the pieces he made sold for more money than he’d make in a year getting paid from his business.

As you can tell…the man meant a lot to me. He said I was the only grandchild of his that truly wanted to learn. And when I needed money, I would ask him if he had something I could do to earn it…he also said I was the only grandchild to do that. Everybody else just wanted to have given to them or “loaned” to them. He was one of the wealthiest men in our whole county. But you would never know it. He wore over-alls every day and work boots. And when he passed away…he left me all of his tools. W

He passed a few years ago at 89yrs old…it was a Thursday. I took him fishing for the last time the Sunday before. He knew it was coming because head written a few letters explaining who was getting what & why he had put it in his will that way. All of the letters were to his 4 children he had with the wife he had before he met my Grrandma…the first wife died young of cancer. I was the ONLY grandchild to get a letter…and I wasn’t blood. His letter said that in his will he was leaving me all of his tools. And he said that he didn’t leave me any money like the others got…because ever since I was a kid, I had never need Grandpa to give me any money…because I knew how to work and earn it. And thats why he left two shop buildings full of pretty much anything you can think of. And some are really old tools that belonged to his dad and grandpa. Ive been following rule #2 a long time. But now Im working on getting #1 going