Grinchtastic
The Grinch seems to be everywhere this year. This is my cousin’s drink last night. Her husband over at Regenaxe has a better pic and lists the ingredients. I didn’t blahg yesterday because we met up with them and npJane a bit on the late side (for us) over on the other side of town. It was really fun but I was kind of done at the end of it all.
The Grinch seems to be everywhere this year. A children’s event at the Cozy Corners in Barbeau and a friend’s doggie daycare and the JKL Bahweting School and I dunno where else. I gather that the dogs were pretty nervous about the Grinch until they realized he was one of their beloved (female) caretakers dressed up in green. Dogs have a keen sense of who people are and what they smell like. I know because my brother’s dogs definitely trusted me. I was “Anne-Mom” and The Commander was “GrrMom”.
We have been calling one of my cousins the Grinch since we were all in high school or thereabouts. We were not all in high school at the same time as there is a 20 year cousin-y age spread but the Grinch and I are three years apart and have always been close. I’m not entirely sure how that nickname got started although there a few theories. But it stuck, at least within the fam. Most people he deals with know him by his first name, which is NOT Mike, which is what I grew up calling him. Go figger.
His mom was my aunt Radical Betty and as an Air Force family they lived all over the place. When Radical Betty and Duke retired to the yooperland, down the beach from us on family land, the Grinch ended up there too. He is a bit eccentric (aren’t we all?) but he turned into a construction worker who has a successful drywall business and employs a lot of folks in the area. I won’t talk about them (these days I don’t know most of them) but if y’all ever need a drywall bucket, I can probably get you one for free. With luck, an empty one.
December 19th, 2025 at 6:01 pm
I’ve never liked the Grinch–the cartoon one or the Jim Carrey version. You cousin sounds like a stand-up guy though. One of my parents’ best friends was called Ralph but everyone called him Mike. (it wasn’t even his middle name) He even named his oldest son Michael.