My mom always talked about staying with her grandma. That grandma would be 161 years old today. Her birthday. She's the one on the left. Mathilda Deterding Donjon (1862-1940) #Genealogy

@poemblaze morning Matt 😝👩‍🦰

@redsheri1 Good morning! That picture is well over 100 years old. She was unable to walk after 1915. That's the only picture we have that shows her standing.

@poemblaze that’s amazing. My grandma lived into her 90’s got married at like thirteen amazing how resilient they were back then.👩‍🦰

@redsheri1 Even in a wheelchair she did gardening. She had raised flower/vegetable beds. Squares of railroad ties filled in with soil.

@poemblaze that’s awesome same my grandma and her hubby gardened with canes until their death. Unreal. I be lucky if I leave my bed at that age.

@redsheri1 My great uncle gardened up until his early 90s. Mom finally convinced him to stop sawing down trees alone in the woods when he was 90.

@poemblaze @redsheri1
My maniac farmer grandaddy climbed 50-foot tall loblolly pine trees when he was 85 just to prove a point.

They were not small pine trees, they were the tall terrifying kind.

The point being, apparently, that he could climb pine trees.