No, but we visited often and would stay a week or more in the summer. She taught me how to sew. Her floors were swept and the dishes washed, but that was the extent of her housekeeping. Her mama tried to teach her to greet my grandpa at the front gate with a cup of coffee when he got home from work. Donny said she was too busy for that nonsense. When I was 10 she said a word and I said "what's that mean?" She handed me a dictionary and started my life-long love affair with words. Her house was full of books, the big tv with the knobs that clicked, and always cake and coffee. She let us drink as much "bubba cola" as we wanted, and didn't worry if we played in the woods dawn-til-dusk.