Today is the birthday of my late Grandmother. She would have been 86 years old but passed away 14 years ago. I loved that woman and she was awful good to me. After getting divorced from my first wife I moved to Lexington and lived 4 miles from my work and her house was in between. I remember when she would call me during the day and say "Grandson, she always called me Grandson, I am cooking some ........................ fill in the blank and it will be ready around 5 if you want to stop by for a home cooked meal" Enough said for at 5pm sharp, I was sitting down to a meal that only a Grandmother could cook. I am a very good cook and there are several on this board that has eaten my Jambalaya, Vegetable Soup, Chili, Biscuits and Gravy and other on fishing trips, but I could not carry my Granny's bra strap when it comes to cooking.

She loved to watch wrestling on Saturday mornings at 12 noon. Don't call her, don't ask her to go anywhere, if you show up sit on the couch and don't bother her, for she will be sitting on the end of her chair yelling at the TV. I think it was Lance Russell that was the announcer for the Mid South Wrestling back then. Jerry "The King" Lawler, Billy "Superstar" Dundee, "Handsome" Jimmy Valiant, The Moondogs Rex and Spot, The Four Horseman Rick Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Olie Anderson, Sting, Lex Lugar, Junkyard Dog, Fabulous Freebirds, Michael PS Hayes, The Midnight Express, Rock and Roll Express, Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart, The Sheephearders, "Dr Death" Steve Williams, Nikita Koloff, Tojo Yamamoto, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Terry Gordy, Bam Bam Bigelo, Kimala The Uganda Giant, Bruiser Brody, Abduhla the Butcher, The Road Warriors (how could I forget them), Barry Windham, Dusty Rhodes, and on and on and on. My granny was always for the Baby Face (good guys) and I was always for the Heels (bad guys) for the sole purpose of stirring the pot (imagine that me stirring the pot). Man she hated Rick Flair and I would root for him the loudest. Back then Flair was the champion a lot plus had a group called the Four Horsemen as his buddies and they would come in and save him from a loss from time to time and that got under her skin. When they would come to Rupp for a show, she always got seats right next to the ring. After the matches were over we would walk up close to the ring and she would find the plastic capsules that the fake blood was in on the floor and she would say the same thing "**** fake stuff, I am not going to watch this or come for a show ever again" But come saturday at noon or the next show in town and there she was screaming her head off. I know it is "Sports Entertainment" and is completely scripted but she would not like today's wrestling in the WWE and TNA for it is too glitzy and glamorous for her. Too many girls showing too many things and the wrestlers have become pretty boys to her. She may not have liked it but she would still be sitting on her chair yelling at the TV for the "Ref to open is dam eyes because he is pulling his hair" every saturday at Noon, Monday at 9pm, Thursday at 9pm and any other time wrestling is on the tube.

Happy Birthday Granny!!!

PS - I still have 2 pressure cookers, 3 caserole dishes and a little metal sign that reads "As you go through life, Two rules will never bend; Never whittle toward yourself and never pee against the wind" in my kitchen and look at or use them often ( but even though a lot of them are your recipes, they just don't taste as good as yours did)