Hi Dave,


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

 DD> Mom never regained consciousness after she went down. I remarked to my
 DD> brother that she was essentially "done" when my father died. And he
 DD> then reminded me that she passed on the 3rd anniversary of his death.

Sounds like she died of a broken heart.



 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)=

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

 DD> I can't recall ever having eaten an Empire. But, there are lots of
 DD> cultivars of apple out there. Did you know that the apples produced
 DD> from the trees spread by the mythic "Johhny Appleseed" (John Chapman)
 DD> were not meant for eating or cooking but for making cider - especially
 DD> hard cider. That's
 DD> according to an article I read in the Smithsonian magazine.

Didn't know that, but not surprised. Probably a good number of apples
went into baked goods or eaten as is as well as being made into cider,
which turned into vinegar as it aged. (G)


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