`Gramps` is a retired 69 year old WASC (white anglo saxon catholic) who lives with his wife and two dogs in Jacksonville, Fl.  Mrs. `Gramps` is a former Alabama Belle who gave up live on the Azalea Trail to marry a handsome serviceman, little realizing that in several years, she would be living in a town in upstate NY that averaged over 100 inches of snow a year.

The `Gramps` have three children (girl, boy, girl) and three grandchildren (girl, boy, boy).  `Gramps` attitudes have been formed based on his 70 odd years on the planet and by a head injury sustained during the depression when he, as an infant, was tossed from a speeding car by his parents in an effort to elude police who were chasing them because of a bank heist gone bad.  The tactic was unnecessary because they had already eluded the police, and they returned to recover the child and raise him to adulthood.