Viola, When we were little kids(in the 1940's) my grandmother's aged cousin lived in several upstairs rooms in our house-her son was overseas and her husband was dead. She drank from her saucer and every morning we would run upstairs to watch her break a raw egg into tomato juice and drink it straight down! We would gag but loved to watch her drink it! She had dentures and would stick out the bottom ones and make them clack at us---we loved it! She also had long and tin snow white hair down to her behind--she would brush her hair and put an old curling iron into the old black top stove to heat it and roll her hair on it-then she put her hair up in a bun with hairpins-also fascinating! We just loved old Aggie so much and in a way she was watching us while Mama got some work done! I remember the mailman bringing a big package and it was pillows with fringes all around them that her son sent from overseas! When I say elderly, she was probably my age or younger!!!But to little children she was very old! She let us drink hot, sweet tea and she used canned milk in it so it tasted extra rich and good! She also made us Jello and put canned milk and sprinkled sugar over it-----I love these memories!! Helen

> Thanks Helen. I love grand parent stories > plus oddity people when you are a child. There was a man who stayed with my grand parents on Goat Ranch Road and he chewed glass and swallowed a sword. One day my two brothers got a little loud and friskey and he took his finger and made that finger move for them to come to him then he would look at his sword slyly laugh and point to the wood shed. My brothers knew what he meant so they both sat behind moms chair the rest of the time we were there.One morning it was not yet day lite and my oldest little brother had to go to the can. He had to go all the way to because it was not allowed by the house because there was a young girl crawling around out side and dad said big boys do not do that to their little sisters. Any way when he opened the can door there sat that big sword swallorer and my aunt came home from school that day and said the teacher heard his scream way across St Clair lake. So mom said well if he never gets any thing else we know he has good lungs. Viola.