Subj : Apples part 2
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Wed Oct 16 2024 15:04:00
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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Catch you later,
Ruth
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