"Everything was better at Grandpa and Grandma's, of course.


"A piece of serving ware I'll never forget is the green glass pitcher. It didn't have a face on it, but it reminded me of the Kool-Aid pitcher in the commercials of the day.


"Kool-Aid is all I can remember being served in it. And the taste of Grandma's Kool-Aid was magically different from the taste of the Kool-Aid at home. I suppose I thought it was the pitcher itself or Grandma's loving attention, but it was a couple things: The water at Grandpa and Grandma's was well water, with a lot of iron in it, and the Kool-Aid was a liquid poured from medicine-shaped bottles, unlike the powder packets Mom used at home.


"Even ice cubes were different at Grandma's!" (Bulletin Board speculates: Frozen iron.)