So it's been awhile

My Dad is waiting to die. Just before Christmas, I got a phone call saying Dad had stage IV lung cancer, and he had only a few days.
He is here because doctors only PRACTICE medicine, and only God knows when someone will die.
Interestingly, Dad started telling stories... more family lore.
Dad told a story about Grandpa Swayer.

I can only hope to recall semi-accurately -- But it went something like this.....
Great great Grandpa Swayer was my Nana's dad. He was left-handed, and a farmer in Pennsylvania. The left-handed thing was important, as he had a passable ability right handed (I guess he was ambidextrous?). So, when he chopped logs, he could wield the axe either way..... when other folks chopped on the right, then jumped over the log to chop from the left, he could just stand on one side of the log.
Seemed Abe Swayer won a few contests.

My great-grandpa Abe could also shoot. Once, he was 'interviewed' for a job keeping anyone from attacking the train. Abe shot the targets off a moving train and he was hired.

I'd like to hear more of my Dad's stories. I hope he is around long enough, and that I am fortunate enough to here, many many more stories.