Erik-isms

• Erik once asked Jim if he could cut his toast using Grandma Klein's recipe: on the diagonal, in four triangles.
• Once while waiting out in the van with Erik for Gina to get something in the grocery, I noticed that he was awfully quiet, so I looked around to see what he was doing. When I saw that he was picking his nose, I said, "Eee! Gross!" His reply: "Well, don't look!" (Mary loves this story.)
  

Pumping Angie for Info

I recently tried to pump Angie for information about our relatives in Indiana. Here's what I got:

• Grandmas had 20 (?) sisters and brothers--her father was married twice.
• Mary, Hilde, Flora, Eve, Carrie, George (wife: Kate)
• Once they told me Grandma had 7 real siblings and 7 half siblings.
• Once they also told me that Mary's husband Herman lived in the basement (?) and that he was really German and would stab anyone with his knife and fork if they put their hand in front of him (while he was eating?) and that everbody was scared to death of him. They lived on Burnett and went to St Elizabeth Church. They had 8 kids: Marie, Rose, Tony, Joe, Hermie, Antony and Antonette (twins).
  
• Grandma's dad used to bring barrels of wine (via horse and buggy) over the Ohio River to sell in Louisville.
• Mary and Anna went over all the time to pick strawberrries and play with George's kids who were about the same age.
  
• Aunt Eve (Eva?) was one of Grandma Beisler's sisters. She was a few years younger than Grandma and she lived to be 106.
• She had a home on the Knobs.
• Eve's children: Marietta, Irvine, Alfred, Bernie
  
• Angie went over there to pick strawberries and was good friends with Marietta (one of Eve's daughters). Marietta's husband died and so she lived with Aunt Eve.
• Bertha was the daughter of Carrie and was the oldest of 8.
• Raymond, Evelyn, Anna-Lee, Sr Dolorita
  
• Mom recently told me that Grandma came over to Louisville to take care of Grandpa's mother who was very sick and that she really hated it. She must have beeon only 15 or 16, so I can understand why. Apparently, his father had already died.