Out with Grandma

**Iolaus** · 28th January 06, 12:14 AM

Thanks, all. Yeah, it's a SWK Nightstalker with a Freelander Sporran.

My dad looks that way quite often, it's just his "smiling attentive" look. We had just gotten up from the table and my mom decided to snap a couple of pics, so we weren't exactly "posed."

Grandma's having a great time for 80-something. She had cancelled a trip that I was going to see her off on (a cruise out of L.A.) for health reasons (bad hip) and I went up to vist instead (in case my folks weren't telling me everything). After visiting with her, I think she's got years of life in her, she's just not as mobile as she used to be.

All in all, it was a great visit.

As for the decor... it's a brew-pub/pizza joint in Grant's Pass Or.; not exactly a one stop-light town, but, in some ways, kind of a "60's hippies grow old in Small Town, USA" kind of place.

**Andrew Breecher** · 28th January 06, 12:51 AM

I wish that I had any of my grandparents left to appreciate my kilt-wearing. I'm sure that my grandfather and grandmother on my mother's side would have loved me in a kilt.

Andrew.

**Mr. Kilt** · 28th January 06, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher

I wish that I had any of my grandparents left to appreciate my kilt-wearing. I'm sure that my grandfather and grandmother on my mother's side would have loved me in a kilt.

Andrew.

Hear hear!
My paternal grandfather (the Irish one) passed away when my father was a teenager, long before I came along. My other grandparents have all be gone for over 10 years.

You're a lucky man, Iolaus. Spend as much time with your grandma as you can.

**Iolaus** · 28th January 06, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher

I wish that I had any of my grandparents left to appreciate my kilt-wearing. I'm sure that my grandfather and grandmother on my mother's side would have loved me in a kilt.

Andrew.

I wish I'd gotten into kilts a few years earlier. Her husband, my mother's step-father was the one bit of Scot heritage that I can claim; he was a McKillop. He was the only grandfather I ever knew. I'm sure he would've been thrilled to see me embracing a part of his heritage (his sgian dubh still sits on her entryway table). Sadly, he died about five years ago.

**Alan H** · 28th January 06, 03:58 PM

Grandmothers and grandfathers...My cousins have theirs, my wifes parents are still doing pretty well. IoOnly had my grandmother until I was about 5. See as much of them as you can, mate!