My Grandma was a nut for mail order things. She ordered some of the craziest things off infomercials. Well they came our with a hard boiled egg peeler and Grandma in her infinite wisdom sent an order in-not for one mind you but like 4-she always figured one of us kids could use these nifty gadgets too, that went for everything she ordered or got thru the mail :) Well she got this cool little gadget home and had to try it out of course. So she sets it up on her table with her hard boiled eggs, good to go and set for action. So she proceeds to get the egg all in her little gadget and gets soing and things are going smoothly until that is, the egg flies all the way across her house into the porch onto her floor. Welll needless to say that was the end of her egg peeler usage LOL she gave away the egg peelers to her kids/grandkids in the hopes that they had better luck than her.

I remember one time mom telling me the story of buying herself a new calculator. She got home with it and took it out of the package. Anxious to try it she started punching numbers in and the numbers she entered were not showing up on the screen. There were numbers on the screen but the calculator wasn't "working". Mom called the store where she had purchased it and they weren't helpful in solving the issue with the "dumb thing". They told mom to bring it back and they would give her a different one. Mom took off for town ready to give that store a piece of her mind. Well she got to the store and went in and proceded to tell a clerk what the "problem" was. The clerk listened patiently and then calmly told mom you didn't take the plastic of the calculator, you know the piece they put over the face of a calculator to "protect" it from scratches while it is on the shelf. Needless to say Mom felt like an idiot, which we all know she was not and she laughed about it. That was just Mom as every one knows.

I remember a fishing trip to Grand Portage and we went to an island to camp for a week I think. David & I went out in the boat with Mom & Rob. Well it wasn't long and David and I were whining because the fish weren't biting and we were bored. Mom & Rob threatened if we didn't quit the whining they were going to drop us on an island. Well of course we didn't quit and so soon we found ourselves on an island. It was an adventure until as Mom & Rob were leaving to return to their fishing Rob said " watch out for the Bears". David and I not knowing that the island did not have "bears" started screaming and crying that we were going to be eaten. Mom & Rob continued on in the boat to fish and soon enough David & I realized that the island was not inhabited by bears and had a fun time on the island.

I remember as a kid going fishing at Twin Lakes, Mom & Rob went out in the boat while David & I stayed on shore with grandma. Mom and Rob came back after a short time because mom had some how put a large Dare devil barbed hook through her finger. Well mom had to go to the hospital ER to have it removed. David & I stayed with grandma at the lake while Rob took mom to the Pipestone hospital. They were gone for what seemed like forever and David & I were whining about being hungry. Grandma then proceeded to fillet Dead chub minnows and cook them over the camp fire and offered them to us to eat. If I remember right, David ate them I however did not preferring to wait til Mom & Rob returned from the hospital and the much anticipated ride back home.