• 'Grandmas' are Moms with lots of frosting.  ~Author Unknown~ 
• What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars worth of pleasure.  ~Gene Perret~
• Grandparents never have children, only grandchildren.  ~Gore Vidal~
• When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.  ~Ogden Nash~
• Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~Marcy DeMaree~
• Grandmas' never run out of hugs or cookies!  ~Author Unknown~
• Grandmas' hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. ~Author Unknown~
• If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse~
• My grand kids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~Gene Perret~ 
• My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ~Henny Youngman~
• Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old. ~Mary H. Waldrip~
• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your Grandmother. ~Proverb~
• An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret~
• The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ~Dave Barry~
• Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown~
• Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.  ~Alex Haley~
• A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside.  ~Author Unknown~
• One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a Grandfather.  ~Joy Hargrove~
• It's amazing how grandparents' seem so young once you become one. ~Author Unknown~
• Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a Grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie~
• Grandparents' are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren. ~Author Unknown~
• A Grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. ~Author Unknown~
• Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.  ~Welsh Proverb~
   

GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER APPOINTEES

• Red-winged Blackbirds diets’ differ between male and females, with females consuming more weed seeds and less waste corn than males.
• Red-wing Blackbirds will increase their feeding rate to match the other blackbirds around them, even if they are already well feed.
• Red-wing Blackbirds learn which new foods to try by carefully watching what the other blackbirds are eating.
• Red-winged Blackbirds will often declare war on the Marsh Wrens in their territory. Both species will eat each other's eggs.
• During the breeding season, Red-winged Blackbirds eat mostly insects, including dragonflies, damselflies, beetles, butterflies, and moths. In the winter, they switch to mostly seeds and grains.
• Red-winged Blackbirds often use a feeding technique known as gaping. By forcibly spreading open their bill in crevices, they expose and seize insects that are hiding under sticks and stones, or in the bases of leaves.
• Red-winged Blackbirds are one of the most polygamous of all bird species. They have been observed to have as many as 15 females nesting in the territory of a single male. On average, a single male has roughly five females.
• Red-winged Blackbirds fiercely defend their territory during the breeding season. Over a quarter of the male’s time is spent vigorously defending his territory from other males and predators. They do not hesitate to attack much larger animals, including people.
• Red-winged Blackbirds can form huge roosts during the winter. Up to a million birds will stay in one area at night. During the daytime, they will disperse up to 50 miles away in search of food.
• Red-winged Blackbirds commonly share their winter roosts with other blackbird species, Common Grackles, Brown-headed Cowbirds and European Starlings. 
• Large flocks of Red-winged and other blackbirds can cause wide-scale damage to sunflower, corn and rice crops. The control measures used to reduce this crop damage are now the major source of adult mortality in Red-winged Blackbirds.
• Male Red-winged Blackbirds return north in the spring ahead of the females and migrate south after the females in the fall.
• Female Red-winged Blackbirds build their nest in four stages. Initially they weave together several supporting pieces of vegetation and then intertwine the walls of the nest onto these supports. The nest cup is then lined with mud and the final step is to line the nest with a layer of fine grasses.