Swearing and My Grandparents

Grammy dropped something in the kitchen and said “dang it!” But not dang it. Uncle Scott was there and said his mouth dropped open. "Oh sorry,
" Grammy said.

Uncle Layne remembers Grammy getting really upset about having to clean out the kids’ fish bowl for the umpteenth time. She told the boys it smelled like horse s-. Again mouths dropped open. 

Grammy grew up on a farm and heard her father use all sorts of “barnyard” language. She said that just they way they talked!


Once Grammy was driving Scott and Brent and their friend home from a ski trip and they were listening to a James Taylor cassette tape. Uncle Scott says the next day Grandpa pulled them into his office and said, “do you know what the worst swear word is our language?” Scott and Brent didn’t want to answer any that. Grandpa said, “ its m- f-.” The boys were shocked that he actually said those words. He told them Grammy had heard those words in their music and he had cut the tape and spliced out the offending phrase. “But that’s not our tape! It’s our friend’s!” Grandpa replied,”too bad. It shouldn’t have been in there anyway.”

Vienna's tough Soccer Day

An email from Vienna's coach after a tough soccer game for her.

Vienna played great today. I know she’s used to scoring a lot of goals, but she played against the opponent’s tougher group today and probably prevented them from scoring 5-6 more goals. I don’t think we tie today if not for her defense against those pretty tough/big girls. She played great!

Ben