Coffee and...part 14 :-D

Man, oh man, what a day!! Got home from the bank and a police car was in my neighbors driveway - he came over and said "I noticed there is a fire out back" I responded, 'ya my neighbor got a burn permit to burn his trash. I went around the house and THE WHOLE FIELD WAS ON FIRE!! Ran back to the police car and told him it was out of control, then called neighbor and he was unaware of it getting out of control. What a mess! Firetrucks roaring across our yard, firemen driving their trucks thru the yard. I kept telling everyone' I didn't start it!!' Thank goodness no one was injured, only got a few blisters from shoveling dirt on the fire trying to keep it from spreading. Firemen were so so nice - saying it was a nice day to be outside etc. I was a little ticked that the whole department drove across our lawn and not the neighbors, but, hey, maybe they squished some dandelions in the process!

Darius - I think it is time for some rewiring!! Is that up your alley?

Got a call from GS that he was making up a soccer game tonight- so we piled in the car and the other team never showed= grrrrr

Also got another piece of meat caught in my food tube tonight at dinner. I am swearing off all meat - I just can't take the chance anymore. Think I'll live on salads and soup - can eat cookies with no problem - so someone make a big plate (peanut butter is my favorite!!)

Hey, who's got a good rhubarb crunch receipe? Mine will be ready by the weekend I think!! I'm gonna go take a calcium in a minute, washed down by some cherry/choco ice cream!! yum

Yep, Sarv, I can do wiring. : )

Sarv48, since I am new to this forum, I must have missed the meat episode. What happened? My mom had surgery last year, because she was choking on food, medicine, even liquids sometimes. When they did a barium x-ray, they discovered a pocket that had formed on the esophogus, and the food was going into it. They went in and stapled that pocket off, and she is fine. Can eat or drink anything now. Might want to get it checked out. BTW I am not a doctor!!

All right, all right , enough requests for something sweet....since the last pie never made it to the counter, due to overzealous guests, I had to make another so DH and I could fill our sweet tooth. Used up the Granny Smiths, when DH comes in from assasinating weeds, he'll be happy to have a slice of warm apple pie with ice cream. Personally, I'd like it with a nice chunk of aged cheddar but don't have any on hand.

Balvenie, you are a working fool....!! Is she leaving because you are making a huge mess or are you just taking advantage of the "free" time to get your updating done? Want to drop over and help DH side the garage? This construction is taking longer than it took to build the house! I guess that's all right since it's pay as you go, but we need to start working on the yard where there is so much to do.

I had a bone scan a year and a half ago, I was so looking forward to seeing a little image of my skeleton (some bones haven't been visible on the surface for a while, lol) but now all you get are numbers. Mine were really good..due to ice cream, cheese, etc. Not milk, ugh. I wanted to give the photo image of my bones to my son for Halloween....! I don't dare take Fosomax, I have heartburn waiting to pop up at an instant's notice, my cholesterol meds give me heartburn, so I get Prilosec for the heartburn. Take a med to fix the effects of the other med. Sheeeeesh! I can still get it from my mailorder RX co, which is good because otc is really expensive.

Pie's on the counter. Hurry before we get some more visitors.....!!!



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Good Looking pie, M5! I think I'll try a small slice, no ice cream. Ummm, cheddar would have been nice!

Oh - I want a piece too! yum.

and - if you don't know it yet - Darius can do ANYTHING! LOL!

m.

super looking pie.Bet it melts in your mouth.Could I try a slice with a hunk of nice extra sharp cheddar? When my sweetie goes away I'm less fearful of making a mess 'cuz I have time to get it all cleaned up 'afore she gets back.It took 10 years to just about finish the little cabin paycheck by paycheck,but it got done.Have patience Meezer.Dug the hole and poured the post base for the first 6X6 gate post after the masonary guy left this morning.He will do the firebricks tomorrow while I dig another hole and pour concrete to anchor the postbase.What a pleasant surprise today with so many flowers opening,like this Columbine under the Clematis and Wisteria:

Ice Cream!! I forgot I had just bought two cartons of Bryers...on sale...2fer...so I can't stop to chat right now...have to get a bowl of that Strawberry!! UMMM....that pie DOES look scrumptious...how will it go with strawberry ice cream? We'll find out. Jo

this is the clematis over the columbine

and a not so good picture of the wisteria,clematis and columbine (firepit behind)

Pass the pie - with ice cream (never had it with cheese- am I missing something good??) Can't sleep again - up at 4:44am after watching the clock for a couple of hours. Too much on my mind - how am I gonna clean up my gardening mess in the house to host a Mother' day gala?? Our outside is a mess too - dandelions all over - how does that happen on one year of not putting down a weed and feed? Now we've got ruts in the yard from the firetrucks zooming over the lawn. Always something!

It is so dry in Michigan = I am gonna haul out the hoses and give my beds a good soaking. Need to get some 10-10-10-down on the beds real soon too. Putting the brugs out today - sink or swim -I need my house back! I'll have 30 plus of them sitting on the patio by tonight! I've got the heating pad on my back right now to warm the old muscles up.

Weatherman said we were in for another hard freeze last night, so I hauled out all the old blankets and tarps to cover the strawberries - just checked the temp and it is in the 40's - man, how can they be so wrong. Our back yard looks like 'white trash' folk live here = junk all over!

Well, off to browse the forums!!

"Apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze", and no, I didn't make that up!! My mom always used to say that. Dunno where it came from....

I'm sure your family won't mind the yard, if it does, hand them the weed digger! Maybe the fire dept. will do something about the ruts, since it wasn't YOUR fire they had to put out. It's been really dry here too, we put in three new trees and they need watering so it's been drag out the hose, roll up the hose, drag out the hose. Finally going to warm up today, which is good because golf leagues are starting, and I'm subbing on another group today. And playing again Friday. If you don't hear from me it will be because I'm nursing muscle aches....intended to go to the driving range to loosen up but that good intention ended up like most of my other ones...

I think strawberry ice cream would be fine with apple pie.... hmm think I'll just have me a little slice for breakfast.....! It might help alleviate the zone envy I got from looking at Balvenies Columbine and Clematis. I've killed so many Clematis they won't sell them to me any more.

Off to the shower!

"Darius can do ANYTHING!"
I thought everybody knew that!!!! LOL
Pati

Good morning. Tea, apple pie, cheddar cheese and strawberry ice cream. What a breakfast!

Sarv, I can identify with hauling out all the old quilts and blankets to cover plants and then having it not get anywhere near freezing. The trouble is that the weather forecast is right just often enough to make us believe it most of the time, and loose sleep wondering if we should have believed it this time when things didn't get covered. Better safe than sorry. It also helps to know if your yard doesn't get frost when others nearby do.

Yesterday I went with my gardening neighbor to another neighbors and dug up a bunch of allium that were soon to be under a new patio. They were making seed stalks but of course I won't see them bloom until next year. I've got drumstick allium and now these globe types. Another neighbor found a surprise bag of allium next to her gate when she came home from work. When I called her to tell her what they are and where they came from she said I had been on the top of her suspect list and she had tried to call me earlier to ask if it was my gift.

Today is cloudy and supposed to be showery. Yesterday was like that too but it didn't shower on us until about 5pm. I had been helping the neighbor move the ewes and lambs again and decided since I was on the horse already it was a good time to take a ride, but I was watching the sky. When the showers got too close I came home and didn't get wet. We are rejoicing about every drop of rain we are getting since our winter was way too dry.

I'm still waiting for the tomato seeds I planted to come up. I had old seeds, maybe they just weren't good anymore. Also, my heat mat isn't working, but they are in the greenhouse and it is hot enough in there every day for the vent system to be working so that should be enough to make them happy.

Tomorrow I'll be leaving to go to another ride. I can't believe how that sneaks up on me every time. The horse that had the reaction from the flu shot seems to be ok so it looks like he is the one I will take. I'll have to check the weather forecast for that area this morning, it is dryer than our area but they do get some wicked flash floods.

Robert, thanks for that nice splash of color I saw here this morning. I want to get one of those purple clematis for my front gate. When I replanted that bed I included a lot of purple and white things with that in mind and it is about time to go buy one without too much danger of it freezing after I get it planted. I hope it grows fast.

Time to get breakfast going.

Off to Boone, Everyone have a God Day!

Apple Pie and Wenslydale Cheese Yummy!!!!!! "Apple pie without the cheese ---etc" Means its good but there is something missing and is an old Yorkshire UKsaying. I heard it for the first time as a child from by beloved grandpa, who was Yorkshire born and bred. In Yorkshire eating the two together is the norm, using cream or custard is a "silly southerners" habbit. So I suspect M5 that your Mum's anticedants were from Yorkshire in the UK, just like mine!
Our visitors returned to the UK yesterday and I am now exhausted! Its been great having them stay and I've enjoyed every minute but it is nice to be able to sit and do 'nowt' for a while.Once the rain stops I'll be back out in the yard so I'm usiong this chance to take five and catch up with you GOBs again.
Carol

Goodmorning....you know...I got busy after I got off here last night and didn't even remember the Ice cream until I was snug in bed....and I love cheese on apple pie too!

I just got about 24 nice Iris in the mail ...now to get them in the ground....Lgreeno will be coming by today (DG'er) maybe I can enlist his aid in getting them in the ground.

M5....you sound like me on the Clematis. DH brought one when we moved from Fl...after he died it did too....I don't think it should have been planted to vine up the Mesquite tree....they leach too much water from other plants.

MaryE...I'll be you can grow anything!! I grow good KIDS! LOLJo

You all give me a giggle a day or more. Laughter is the best reason for breathing in and breathing out. Here's a couple I wanta share back:

I forget whose this was: /"she never lifted a finger in my house for the four centuries she lived with us." you snuck that one in just right - LOL

M5 - /"I've killed so many Clematis they won't sell them to me any more." -ROFL

Defoecat - "This week there will be at least one event each day in Louisville leading up to the shortest sporting event in the world." OMG LOL

That's just some of the laughter you generated.
Thanks, ~Blooms /;-)

Mary E - still waiting for the tomato seeds I planted to come up. I had old seeds.

Julie - I'm so pleased to hear that the Datura germinated. My self sown ones // the second year ones // are putting on growth exponentially. one day two leaves next day a plant of stature.

Ooohmi my little hummer lady just hovered by the window on her way back to her nest. The string of Xmas lights she hung her nest on last year finally burned out but I left the strand that holds her up when I removed them. [Can't imagine why they burned out they've only been up there 15 years.]

Sure enuff she came right back - I wonder tho, last year she built a new nest instead of using the one that had been used for at least two years previous.

Hmmm [that signifys thought process] How long do they live? Did last years new nest mean that she's a daughter of the original builder? She built the new nest only one loop over from the original.

I'm taking a piece of that apple pie if there's any left and I love sharp cheese with darn near anything. )) But if there's any whip cream in the frig, I like a gob of that. This is that not quite lunch, way past breakfast munchie attack.
Guess I'll hafta eat a bigger breakfast or an earlier lunch.
Later Broads and Bard, ~ my tummy's grwling.

Well just in for a bite of lunch. I've been out all morning. I tilled a new flower bed that is 30X6. This is to screen a dog run. I planted morning glory, Love in a mist, snapdragon, cardinal creeper, sun flowers, and then a wildflower mixture. I am hoping that the morning glory will climb the fence. I am getting my flower boxes on the deck filled with new potting soil so that I will be ready to fill them. Tied up some clematis runners, filled the hummingbird feeders, (I have 8). Those critters are really zooming around. Love them. Then I am going out on the deck and soak up some sun. Weather is sunny and about 78. Have to get started on the tan, as we are going to Nassau in June, and don't want to cook like a lobster. I know someone will say sun is bad for you, well as much as I am outside, how can you avoid it. I sure don't want to garden at night!! I say we are not going to get out of this world alive, and I am going to die of something, so let's just throw skin cancer into the mix!! Happy gardening to all of you. Been reading about the apple pie, will fix strawberry-rhubarb pie tomorrow, so stop by for a bite

Mary I just looked at my post and see i didn't finish my thought for you. My sister does tomatoes in a big way as she's a market gardener and has hundreds of them. Just last Sunday she was saying shes having to re - plant more than half her seed packs as they're not germinating.

Instead of only a coupla failures per flat she's getting only a few successes. Friend down the road having same problem. She plants at least a dozen or more varieties and is using her usual successful seed supplier. What gives?? ANY one else?? Ernie?? I bet you look in>>

Phew, busy day for everyone! I just came inside and it is almost 8pm. Went to the huff and puff this morning, came home to my folks here - they wanted hair cuts, then served them lunch, played two games of scrabble ( I won), cut the grass, watered the flower beds, and now am ready to collapse....but first- some cherry/choco ice cream please !!!

Love those clematis! I have several, didn't cut them down like I usually do and they sure look better. Maybe I'm not supposed to cut them down!!! Who knows.

I'm still waiting for a rhubarb crunch receipe - who was making one??? I have some syrian meat pies (we call them diapers because that is the shape they are) They are made of mutton and pine nuts (dad was syrian) They are out of this world! There's a couple left - any takers??

We've got three woodchucks out back - get out the gun.....they sure do make a mess. Gotta go get the jammies on - I'm pooped.

Sarv,sounds like you had a really big day and deserve a treat,cherry/chocolate ice cream sounds great.I haven't cut my clematis for the last 2 years and they are still doing OK. For a crunch recipe I can show you mine,which may not help much. Chop up a bunch of rhubarb,mix in a big bowl with enough sugar to sweeten to taste, a pinch of salt and enough flour to thicken the juices,pour into an ovenproof dish,dot with butter and top with a mixture of oatmeal,flour,sugar and melted butter.Bake on a foil covered baking sheet at 350° for an hour or so till tender and the top is browned. Sorry its so vague,I can find a few real recipes if you'd like.
After the brick mason left this morning I ordered the new sunroom door to replace the old nasty one,went to the new Indian Casino and lost $25.It sure is a beautiful place,and that's about the extent of my gambling for the year.Then scanned about 140 slides into the computer.At least its a start.Dear one is probably basking in the Tuscan sun about now,poor baby.I'd best be off to a shower and then think about what to make for dinner.Probably salad with the leftover chicken breast,avacado and balsemic vinegaret and Fergassa bread from the bakery.The view is the Skagit River at Mt. Vernon,WA circa 1965

I got a good easy rhubarb crunch recipe. Cook the rhubarb, sweeten to taste. I add a tablespoon of corn starch when it is done to thicken it. Pour into a baking dish, sprinkle yellow cake mix over top, then add I stick margarine or butter on top of that and nuts if you wish. Bake at 375 for about 30 minutes. Really really good, and easy too. Happy eating.

BTW, you can use any fruit you wish. Cherries or apples are good too. Sometimes I add strawberries to the rhubarb. Makes a little different taste.

add enough sugar to taste = thicken with cornstarch!!!! Oh my gosh, I have to use measurements!!!! I'd probably end up with a mass of sweet or sour goo if I tried it without a receipe!! We always have a ton of rhubarb and it all goes to waste (although if I make a crunch it will go to waist!!) It seems a shame and I should do something with it. Old neighbors used to come and cut it all. They made a sauce with it, froze it and ate it all year long. They were so appreciative and I loved getting rid of it = alas, they are not with us anymore

Another gorgeous day coming up= I'm just waiting for the sun to peek over the horizon and I am outside!! Gonna rototill the perimeter of the flower beds today and start ringing them with annuals. Every year I say I am gonna change colors, but when I get to the greenhouse, my eye is drawn to the same colors as last year, so I go for them.

It's still dark, but the birds are chirping loudly. The first oriole showed up yesterday = they have such a beautiful song. Take care everyone!! TGIF

GOOD Morning, Everyone!
As I sit here, being thankful for every drop of rain that's falling on my garden, I can't remember whether I checked in yesterday or not. LOL I was outside from early morning to about 7:00 last night. And in that time I managed to get my garden shed cleaned out so I could move ALL my plants from indoors (basement *AND* the spare bedroom!) out. I was going to move the plant stand from the spare room...*but* DH decided *he* was the only one who do that. Well, I managed to save the plants...but, for some reason that only he will ever know, he decided to LEAVE the light fixture attached to the stand. I'll bet you'll never guess what happened...OR how long it took ME to clean it up. LOL

I may have taken a LOT more time getting everything moved outside, but I'll bet I wouldn't have broken anything. (hehehehe) But, I'm thankful for the help...right? :-D

DH finished up a walkway and a flower bed/tree border by the patio...and think I was planting before he laid the last paver and piece of edging. LOL I don't have any time to waste right now. Then there was that 4' X 4' pile of bricks that needed to be moved. (The two DGD's who came over on Wednesday after school, couldn't muster enough energy to help me with more than half of the pile...so when ONE of the girls volunteered yesterday, I gratefully took her up on her offer.) But it was boring just restacking them, so I started laying them around several of flower beds...you know, just to "see" what it would look like. (VBG here!) DH didn't know what he wanted to do with the bricks...so I guess I *won*! hehehe He LIKES it! Would you believe that he suggested I go ahead and border the beds in the front yard when I'm finished? (Hmmmmmm, you don't think there might be an ulterior motive there, do you? ...you bet there is! This way *he* can get out of all the binding and kneeling and moving bricks! LOL)

Sorry, Robert. ~grin~ I'm not putting DH down...just teasing a bit. He's a great carpenter...but sometimes I get the feeling that unless he's on the big Ford diesel yard tractor, yard work is just *not* his forte.(Oh...and I know *why* she took that trip. LOL I've lived with drywall dust and wood chips clogging my vacuum cleaner for over 40 years...and if I had the chance to avoid ANY of it, I'd take the trip too.)

All this take about rhubarb crunch/crisp/coffeecake has me drooling all over my keyboard. YUMMMMMMMY

Well folks...this morning I go to the doc for the presurgery 'physical' to get the 'ok' for the cataract procedure. I guess I have to do this twice since the hospital has a policy that you have to be "ok'd" within two weeks of each operation. Oh well...I guess everyone has to make their money, don't they.

Today, I'll be doing more potting up and some seed planting. Still need to get those castor beans going.

Y'all have a great day...

~julie~

wooops, I've been among the missing for a day or so. Played golf yesterday on a league that I joined as a "sub" and had a good day, beautiful sunshine. Will play this morning on my regular league, and there is no sun, just overcast and predictions of scattered showers. Likely they will scatter on me. It's not too cold out today, but it would have been nice to have sunshine two days in a row. Haven't gotten a single thing done in the yard this week, I feel like Alice, the faster I go the behinder I get. I did start dinner this morning though, so maybe if it's not raining this afternoon I can go tackle some weeds. I'd better run, time's awastin' and I tee off in about 45 mins.

I got a wonderful Mother's day gift from my spousal unit yesterday. We went to a local nursery and he set me loose. I got what I wanted, within reason, and had a blast. I bought ferns, impatiens, polka dot plants. ornamental sweet potato vines and some fertilizer. These are all for planters in a wall he built to cover up a bare bank after he excavated to make a level place for our patio. Have I mentioned we have very steep property?

Hello to you all.... I'm always drawn to this thread for some reason. Maybe it's because I'm an OB myself.(don't know about the G though, LOL).

I've been fortunate enough to meet Darius at my brother's house and liked her immediately. Jo (roadrunner) and I are cousins that don't get to see each other enough. She and her sister, MaryK keeps you in stitches every time you're around them.

Sarv48, I see you're looking for a rhubarb crunch recipe. I made this one a few days ago and thought it was delicious.

Mix together, 2/3 cup white sugar, 3 TB flour and 1 to 2 TB strawberry jello.
Stir this into 3 cups diced rhubarb and put in a buttered 9x13 baking dish. Make a topping of 2/3 cup packed brown sugar, 2/3 cup quick cooking oats, 1/2 cup flour, and 2/3 cup cold butter. Sprinkle over the rhubarb and bake about 40 min @ 375.

A 9x13 dish makes a thin dessert so I guess if you like it thicker just use a smaller one. Seems like you get more bites of crunchies with it thinner.

I have to get busy, as I've put off vacuuming far to long. It's a cloudy, damp day here today so might as well do something indoors. Ginlyn ( Ginny )

You all simply MUST try rhubarb with bananas. Both strawberries and rhubarb are very tart, but if you substitute the banans for the strawberries, you get a smoother consistancy and it takes a little "bite" out of the rhubarb. Rhubarb and bananas are very compatible.

HI Ginny!

Folks, this gal can COOK! So if she gives you a recipe, you can count on it being good!! Also, she is a real sweetheart!

Ginny, Darius has gone up to your Sis-in-laws house (LizH near Boone) to visit her Mom. I wish we could all get together up there again like we did ...was it just last year? I love to go to thier place up on the mountain.

Today I am going to plant Iris I got as a SASE trade from Mitch in TX......they are very healthy looking (as if I would know what plant looks healthy!) but I've decided I am going to surround myself with Iris!! I dond't have to dig so deep to plant them..LOL

Woodspirit...I never thought of bananas with rhubarb.....but then...I try not to thing of rhubarb....except as a beautiful plant. Mom used to make a rhubarb cake...just cut the rhubarb in pieces about an inch thick...stirred them in the batter....It never was sweet enough for my taste. Ginny, did Aunt Holly do that too? Can you make buscuits like your Mom did?? She was THE best!!

WEll...gotta get to the Iris. Have a good day all. Jo

LOL, this is beginning to sound like a family reunion! Before I found Dave's Garden I was active on a NC geneology group that spoke of the members as being Kudzu Kuzzins. Now, if you are familiar with Kudzu you know what a tangled mess it is! The theory is that if you dig back far enough, everybody in those counties are kin somehow.

I used to do a lot of searches in cemeteries, headstone rubbing, etc. Now, since Dave's Garden, all I want to do in the cemeteries is plant flowers!!! *Grin*

Wonder how many DG'ers are really related?
Pati

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Hey Ginny! Welcome to our table! So gald you decided to become "visible" LOL

M5...you should be on track for some sunshine I'm sending from this side of the state a little later this afternoon. It's WONDERFUL outside this morning!

Pati...I'm not related to anyone on DG, but I wish I *was!*

Just got back from the Doc's office. It's look like everything is "ok" for the procedure. (...as if I thought there'd be a problem. ;-))

I'm heading out now to survey my "kingdom". I'll check in again later.

~julie~

Oh Julie,it's 11:30 and raining cats and dogs. Scattered showers, indeed! Waited around the golf course for a while to see if it would let up, finally gave up and a bunch of us went to a nearby greek restaurant for breakfast. Hardly any wind, so whatever is hanging over us is probably going to stay all day. Good news from your check up, and so you're set for the surgery.

Woodspirit, I'm waiting for our nearby garden center to get their vegetables in as that will include the sweet potatos, last year the clerk said they had both the chartreuse and dark purple. I really want to get outand start digging in the dirt, but our last frost date is still a week or so away, so I'm going to be cautious. Nice Mother's day treat, raiding the garden center!!! I have a couple of coupons we got from the Home and Garden show last month, so one of these days my car will look like a traveling greenhouse when I bring home my treasures.

See y'all later, I'm going to go convince myself that this rain is a good thing, it's been so dry here.

Oh, a free for all at the garden center- he's my kinda guy!!! DH says he has a good idea for Mother's day (got a wagon cart last year, and a bagger for the lawn mower for Christmas), so I think he will do fine. I would just love a gift card to the local nursery - wish I dared tell my kids to get me that!!!

Gin - I'll give that receipe a try.

Bananas with rhubarb??? Do you smoosh them together or what??

M5 - send some rain our way. It has never been so dry here- I have the sprinkler on as I type and can hear the pump go on and off ($$$$$) Many of my spring plants are much shorter than usual because of lack of moisture. We cut the grass (what little there is of it) and I was covered from head to toe in dust when I finished - even my lips were caked.

Used to play golf- took lessons even, but got worse after the lessons (can you believe that!!) so I got rid of my clubs. Enjoy walking instead.

Gotta go move the sprinkler---

Woodspirit...I think I have about 7 close kin on DG, plus Garedclay and I find that we are all decendants of Dan'l Boone's sister!! So we claim Cousinship too...then Callalily fits in a wee bit...plus Mystic...Yep...gotta love those family reunions!! Jo

Well, I'm home! I had a good "reunion" with Jo's cousins in Boone. But then I always feel so welcomed there, and I had fun sitting with Edna (lizh) in her warm greenhouse and talking plants!

The disappointment was visiting my mother in the nursing home. I took a potted stargazer lily (actually several in a pot) and some edible favorite goodies to her for Mother's Day. However, I could NOT get her to wake up enough to know I was there. She'd open her eyes, but show no recognition... or was angry with me because it's been 4 months and just chose to ignore me. She's capable of that behavior.

Went back to town, got a certified copy of my Power of Attorney from the courthouse, and took it to over to the funeral home where we have made pre-need arrangements, and then back to the nursing home. Mother was still a zombie. Sigh.

Her nurse assures me she does this in spurts where she will sleep for 3 days, but her health seems normal for her age and condition. He did say she was awake almost all night last night, and just last week asked to be dressed and taken to the Common Room so she could visit, quite a rarity.

Oh Darius, it's such a hard path to walk. I thank God that my mother only had physical ailments and her mind was clear until she passed at 94. I wish I had words of comfort for you, my friend, but I only have ((hugs)) from the heart.
Pati

Gee Whizz, My great Grandmother Josephine Maher B. 22 Feb 1871,Louisville KY to John Maher and Molly Martin is said to have made some claim of the family being related to old Dan'l too, or at least some part of the family.Never could find that link,though I hadn't tried to go through the Boone lineage. Isn't it interesting to see how far back in 'history' you can go,and how many unknown relations you find.I'll bet if the geneology was done there would be more DG'ers with kinship ties than anyone realizes.
How about a rhubarb/banana smoothy with honey and french valilla ice cream?? or just add sweetened rhubarb juice instead of stalk?
Strawberries should be coming on in a few weeks.Will have to try Ginny's recipe tonight.
The Ceonothus outside my window is starting to form flowers.This sure is a nice time of year.