Hi Dave,

 DD> Made it yesterday for my friend Les' wife, Sara. Les is in expensive
 DD> care after his heart stopped. And poor Sara has been run ragged
 DD> getting the house ready for home hospice. And with High Holy Days at
 DD> her temple. Since there was nothing un-Kosher in it ... there were no
 DD> leftovers.

 RH> Doesn't sound good, do they do that community service award
 RH> posthumously?

 DD> I really hope so. I spent Monday afternoon sitting with him so Sara
 DD> could attend to other necessities of life, It reminded me of when my
 DD> mother had a stroke. The body was there but the person wasn't. The
 DD> spirit had fled to whatever comes next. It was sad and it bothered me.
 DD> I warned Howard
 DD> (our friend) what to expect when he came to sit with Les.

My grandmother had a series of strokes--wasn't bad for the first few but
the last few did her in. I saw her about a month before she passed away;
by then she was pretty well out of it. She knew we were family but not
really how we were related. By then I had a ring from Steve--my dad
tried to have me show it to my grandmother but she didn't really
comprehend what it was. My mom had told me that I had to come home for
Thanksgiving if my grandmother was still living but she passed away in
September and I spent my first of many Thanksgivings in NC, with Steve.


 DD> He texted me later "Having just sat through out long services on the
 DD> Day of Atonment it occurs to me that Les has little to atone for."

 DD> Sad.

 DD> I used Northern Spy for the apples as that was what was available at
 DD> the Apple Barn when I picked up the cider. No Granny Smith to be had.

 RH> I'd consider honeycrisp, one of my favorites for both cooking and
 RH> eating.

 DD> I used the Northern Spy because they are tart like the Granny Smith. I
 DD> have both honeycrisp and cosmic crisp (a near cousin) available to me
 DD> and use them in my chicken salad as well as elsewhere - like for just
 DD> eating.  Bv)=

Another favorite of ours is Empire==found then first up in MA when we
came home from Germany in 1992. Wegman's has them from time to time so
Steve usually grabs a bag or 2.


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