Edna-isms, Part Two

1. "You can't run fast enough to put me up on that hill!"  This was something Mom would say when we would see houses built up on hillsides.  

2.  "Pretty good, but mostly pretty."  This became an extremely worn out phrase toward the end of her life.  When someone would ask how she was, this was her answer.  She said her father always said this.

3. "A mug and a miss."  This was also an extremely worn out phrase toward the end of her life. When my nephew J was quite small, he said something about giving Mom a hug and kiss but called it a mug and a miss, and this phrase was born.

4.  "The food of the Gods."  In a largely beef-, pork- and chicken-eating family, one time we had a Sunday dinner of lamb.  We little G kids were adamantly opposed to even one little taste.  To get us to try it, my mother said, "But this is the food of the Gods!"

5. "Too much 'Howdy-doo, Bishop!'"  On a Sunday when we were pretty tired after a day of meetings, my mother would say we were tired from "too much howdy-doo, Bishop!"