Hi Bill,


 RH> It was a thought, since she apparantly doesn't get Meals on Wheels or

 BS> I understand.  A good friend of my wife, lovely woman who emigrated
 BS> from Latvia after WWII, was living alone, her husband passed away.
 BS> They found her dead, she'd apparently gone into a coma.  This was when
 BS> we found out she was a diabetic.  She had Meals on Wheels, and I think
 BS> that's who finally realized something was wrong.  I know we'd been

Too bad they didn't catch on just a couple of days or so earlier.

 BS> calling for days, she was in Denver and us in Anchorage.  Because of

Kind of hard to run over and check on someone when there's a distance
involved.


 BS> that, and Connie dieing, I pay attention to things like this.  I'm

That's understandable; now that my dad is in a nursing home, I'm not as
concerned. Steve's sister and BIL live in the same retirement community
in FL as his folks do--that is a relief to us, knowing that somebody is
close by Mom & Dad.


 BS> living alone with a heart condition and try to never be more than 3'
 BS> from the cell phone, not that it would help much.

Mine's usually within arm's reach. We don't have a land line so it goes
room to room with me.

 BS> OK, enough of this cheery subject...How about them Cubs?  I wear a

I'm not a Cubs fan, follow the Mets. Haven't been to a major league game
since they were in Shea Stadium, serving hot dogs. (G)


 BS> Cubs hat, bought it at one of spring training games.  I get a lot of
 BS> "Go Cubbies" comments from people.  They often ask me
about the World
 BS> Series, I have to admit that I was out of the country and saw none of
 BS> it.  Some of the Brewers fans haven't seemed eager to give me a warm
 BS> hug though.

We saw a bit of one of the World Series games--I think it was on while
we were camping. Steve turned on the tv one night to see what he could
pull in, found that on so we watched a bit.

 BS>       Title: Glossary - Part 4
 BS>  Categories: Cia, Ffbb, Glossary
 BS>       Yield: 1 Text

Lots of interesting, almost obscure information in these--fun to read
and tuck away something new. Who knows, it might come up on "Jeopardy"
some time. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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