Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cass, is it OK if I ask you to tell me a story about your grandmother, the way you remember her and love her?
spent a lot of late nights
Well, you know that due to timezones your nights are my days. If there's anything I can do, anything at all, even just making sure you know that there's somebody else awake and you're not the only one, please let me know, OK?
And lots of love and strength to your family, as well.
Drat, Phoenix ate my post. I had written down several memories but my favorite of the moment is from the end of this summer so I will rewrite that one.
I had gone to grandma's house to make the two of us dinner and spend a few hours talking. I brought all of the ingredients for shrimp scampi and a bottle of wine.
I did not, however, remember to bring a corkscrew to open the bottle. I told her that I didn't really care if I had a glass of wine or not, but she had decided that a lack of a corkscrew wasn't going to get in her way. And she doesn't even drink wine.
She attacked the bottle with knives, screws, hanging hooks and a couple of nails that she hammered through the cork. She just wouldn't give up. She is just stubborn once she puts her mind to something.
Thirty minutes later she had managed to rip out about half the cork and pushed the rest into the bottle. Then she strained the wine through a coffee filter. It took longer than that for us to stop laughing about it.
Stubborn *and* resourceful. God I admired that about her.
Whenever we were saying goodbye, she always said, "Grandma loves you." I am going to miss hearing that.
It took longer than that for us to stop laughing about it.
Cass, that was an awesome story. Especially with the coffee filter in the end, for the final touch.
She reads like a very special lady. And like you had not only known that while she was alive, but had also shown her that you do, too.
Stubborn *and* resourceful
As are you, what with not letting the eating-posts computer stop you from telling the story you wanted to tell. So it seems to me that you didn't just admire it in her, you also got some of it in yourself, as well.
Cass, thanks for telling that story. That's a great memory. Nilly, thanks for asking the question.
It's snowing here--tiny little flakes, and they're accumulating quickly, on the ground. Ever since the accident, I've been afraid to drive in the snow, even though I wasn't driving in the accident. I have to leave for church in an hour, because I teach an adult Sunday School class, before hand. I'd call and cancel, but we've only got three sessions left, and have canceled several classes recently. Wish me no-skidding-in-the-new-car. Eep.
::crosses fingers for no-skid-ma::
It's accumulated visibly in the last half hour, which is at least making everything pretty! I expect it will warm up enough to melt by the end of church -- it will around here, anyway -- if I went to church, but I'll be going to yoga instead.
No-skidding-in-the-new-car~ma for you, Cindy.
I expect it will warm up enough to melt by the end of church -- it will around here, anyway -- if I went to church, but I'll be going to yoga instead.It's the going-to-church that has me more worried. The it's only (I think) a little more than a half mile away, but it's pretty much a half mile down hill. I live in just about the highest spot in town. The church is probably at the lowest spot, as it's right next to the lake.
Thanks for the no skidding thoughts, Theo and Nilly. I have to get a move on.
There won't be many people on the roads, so you can creep the car along if you must. I just checked, and the sidewalk in front of my house (and across the street) is entirely footprint-free, so at least my unscientific sample supports my hypothesis....
it's only (I think) a little more than a half mile away
I guess, not a walking-distance in this weather, right?
at least my unscientific sample supports my hypothesis....
I like this sentence, and not only because of the "try to say it three times fast" aspect.
There were no celebrities at the restaurant I ate at last night.
Cass, I am so sorry.
I woke up at 6 something, but wass till tired and went back to bed, getting up now was a much bigger struggle. I do not get it.
I have much to get done today, and really think that I am gonna have to skip church to make it all happen. First up laundry.