Grandma Said

Yesterday I had to attend two church tureen dinners.  Each was a very enjoyable dinner with great company to enjoy.  One was at noon and the second at 6 PM.  I kept wishing that these dinners could have been on two separate days.  "Feast and then a famine," I thought.  And then I remembered, Grandma Emma used to say that.

That made me wonder what of my Grandma's other sayings I can remember.  Grandma Emma died in 1963, so it's been a long time ago that I heard her sayings.  But several of them came back to my mind.

"Flick as Flynn," she would say when she sliced homemade bread.  I don't know if I spelled Flynn correctly because I don't know if it was a name or a made up word.  She meant that the bread would be sliced unevenly, perhaps thick at the top, tapering to thin at the bottom.  Or it could be the other way around.  Thick and thin both in one slice of bread.  Perhaps it was something they made up at home, either when she was a girl in her family, or one of her children may have said it when she was a mamma.  I questioned what the saying meant, but I never asked where the saying came from.

When two things were beside each other, Grandma would say that they were, "Side by each."  I've never heard anyone else say that, but once in a while I say it, just because I remember Grandma.  (And I always add, "My grandma said it that way.)

At the dinner last night, when people were talking about food preferences, someone said, "Each to his own."  Meaning that we don't all like the same things.  And this brought back to my mind that I think my grandma and my mom both said this, but they would add something to it.  "'Each to his own,' said the old lady as she kissed her cow.'"  None of the others had heard it said this way.

I hope I remember some more things that my grandma said.

Posted by: NJ on 2/20/2004 6:46:20 AM , 4 comments