My grandmother and I have a garden this year. It is my first garden so I am really excited but also a little unsure of myself. I am relying on my family to help me figure this out. The other day I was working in the garden and when I came in and grandma is all worked up because we need a double shovel plow or else the garden will not do well. She stayed on this topic for a couple of days so I mentioned it to my mom, what is a double plow shovel and where would I find one? She laughed and told me I would first need to get a donkey to pull it! Apparently that is the plow grandma would use when she was a girl and that is what she was remembering that week! We are still laughing about it.
My grandmother has a cat, Ms. Kitty. It was a stray we found years ago. Grandma feeds her twice a day...morning and evening. But, lately she can't keep it straight whether or not she fed her. I will walk by the patio door and see Ms. Kitty's face pressed up against the glass. I always ask grandma if she fed her and she always says yes. I secretly go out and feed her "more" and she just devours it! Because grandma is getting all the other times she fed Ms. Kitty confused. Another thing she does is feeds her every couple of hours and gripes that she doesn't eat..."the neighbors must be feeding her." I giggle to myself. The reality is that no cat could eat that much! So, grandma will go and pick up Ms. Kitty's food "so the other animals don't eat it," forget she did, and next thing you know, Ms. Kitty is starving again and can't find her food bowl. Poor cat!
Last night grandma and I were watching Pawn Stars and a commercial came on advertising a restaraunt. The commercial had a couple in it having a very romantic dinner and she immediately goes to turn the television off in a huff because of the filth they put on there. She does not want to watch "that sex stuff." Before she can locate the remote the people start eating their dinner and she calms down. Then, this morning I wake up and find her watching a Jerry Springer-like show about a father molesting his young daughter. They are talking about all the horrible things he did to her and how much porn he watched and this she is watching intently. What?!? Then, after the show is over and the lie-detector test results come back to confirm this man is a monster, she looks at me and says "there is no difference in a father changing his daugher's clothes than a mother changing her son's clothes." I am speechless to find she got NOTHING out of that program. She thought the mom was just mad that the father would dress the daughter. The night before she wouldn't watch a commercial with a man and woman kissing and this morning she is tuned into this show where they are bleeping out words and throwing things at each other!
Sometimes it helps to just take a step back and laugh about some things...
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