My Grandmother was here the other day. She's getting very old now and has a habit of repeating herself alot. She came here to see the great-great-grandbaby Ethan. This is her first great-great. She hasn't been up here to see me in years. She doesn't drive, and she lives quite a ways for her to go out so I usually visit her when I can.
She's a flaming red-head with a boisterous laugh. My mother calls it the witch's cackle. Ethan was actually aftraid of her. She's been like this forever. She's in pretty good shape for 90 years old, although I do see her slowing down finally. Never ever could imagine it before tho. Katherine Hepburn comes to mind as a picture of my grandmother. She's alot like her. Same hairstyle, personality and all.
She was and still is a very strong woman especially when it comes to her opinions. She really was born before her time. She was a woman's libber before the term was even formed. If she were able to do so, she would have had career over family anyday. She wanted me to join the Air Force when I graduated HS because the outfits were cute.
Her favorite subject besides cooking and gardening is politics. She doesn't hardly move away from CNN. It's the only channel her TV has ever been on for years. Lord forbid if we try to switch the channel....any channel......but don't even think about putting on Fox News. She loves Hillary and hates Bush. It's no use arguing with her though because she's starting to get hard of hearing. It's very difficult to repeat your argument over her loud voice because she can't hear you anyway.
She is a voracious reader. Spy novels and Stephen King are her favorites. She's met and talked to him at a book signing once noticing the six pack of beer under the table, and of course, just had to make a comment about it. Both tea and beer are her beverage of choice.
We cringe sometimes when we go out with her, because we never know what she's going to say. She laughs and says after you hit 80 you can say anything because others just smile at you and think you're senile anyway. I'm looking forward to 80 for just that reason. I can say anything then, and nobody will really take offense. But then again, some already think I'm senile....heh!
My kids always like to go over to see Great Grammy because they liked to sit there and laugh. They thought she was not only funny but quite loony and in some ways she was on purpose. Anything for attention my mother says. My mother, her daughter is quite serious and nothing like her mom. My grandmother of couse makes dry comments with a face when she talks about her daughter (in front of her even) about lightening up a bit. "Geeesh" she'd say. I can see her now scowling and hunching over her tea as she says this.
My kids say I'm like Great Grammy and someday I'm going to be her spittin' image. Gah! I hope not that bad....lol. I know for certain when it comes to politics and religion it's not gonna happen. Maybe they said that because of all the embarrasing things I've done to them over the years. My favorite is dancing every fall when they got on the schoolbus for the first time. I'd do a little jig right there on the front lawn. After all, it had been a long summer with six kids in my charge every day. One time I just sat in a lawn chair sipping a drink waving as the bus went by. The bus would pick them up, go to the end of the road and pass by the house again. By then I'd be all set up and they hadn't a clue what I was going to do.
So when Grammy came over the other day she once again made mention of a quote she so often uses. It goes like this:
"Profanity is the means by which the inarticulate make themselves known."
She loves to read and she loves to do crossword puzzles and is quite enamored with the English language. She can't understand the language of today. Each time she speaks of the younger generation, she brings up this quote.
I guess it's a grandmother thing. But she does have a point.