Its Mothers day people therefore I get a pass and get to tell you about something I did. Something I did…………to my gramma. See, Im a gramas boy through and through. I throw the bones with her and her cronies, mow her lawn, pressure wash her decks and clean her cars anytime she wants (Except Ski season). Gramma is convinced we are at the end of Days, and if you cheat during dominoes she references that as further evidence that the rapture is close. Close because someone cheated.
You better watch out when your around my gramma, she will put you to work, crush you with chores, then make you lunch, talk about the end times and bring out those bones as soon as ten of her homies show up with cases of cookies for me. She watches those cookies like a hawk while pretending not to, looking at em sideways making sure I dont like THOSE cookies more than I like HER cookies.  Gramma has me on lockdown big time, I like it…she is a good egg.

Last year during one of our dominoe sessions I casually injected into the conversation how great it would be if she sold her place, bought a motorhome and dialed in her life as a nomad, something she sneered at while trying to divert my attention from her shifty, crooked hands which were switching out bones, illegally. I shook my head and muttered Apocalypse then went on idly about the joys of not having a giant house to care for, with outbuildings, lawns etc etc. Over the course of the year I chiseled away at her now and again, not really taking it too seriously, but chiseling nonetheless. Remarkably however after all this time, she has done just that: sold the house and liquidated most everything, and is shopping for a land yacht to park at her kids place deep in the Mountains! I am stoked, she is salty as hell, and still every bit a pioneer. Major moves like this require major grit and I cant believe she really did it.  She did query suspicously that I just want her to die off and then collect her new motorhome, which I responded simply enough: what can I do with 44 feet of mega deluxe motorhome? Its way to much for someone who plays as hard as I do. I did threaten to park mine next to hers every chance I got, just to make her friends who dont know me nervous.
Its Mothers Day, good on Grandma bucking the odds and taking a huge bold move. Im proud of her.
She gets the Pirate badge now.