Subj : Presents was:Scones was: To : Shawn Highfield From : Ruth Haffly Date : Mon Oct 28 2024 17:47:56 Hi Shawn, RH> years he had (various ones) it, he had to show her every week how to RH> turn it on and delete the previous one. Looking back, that may have SH> Laugh, sounds like my mother using my old c64 when I was a kid. SH> Wrote down instructions on how to play her majong game. Steve wrote out instructions for his mom to use her DVD player but I think she has stopped watching much tv/many movies. She's getting more active in her assisted living community now, good for her to get out with other people. RH> her in 2014. The weekly letters had stopped some years before she RH> passed away. SH> Could have been, or she was just running out of things to write about? No, she always wrote about the same basics--what was in bloom, rainfall amounts, anything of note in the community. Her mind had gotten so bad after a broken hip and out of control diabeties before she went into the nursing home that Dad banished her from the kitchen and basically doing any household work. They'd hired a part time housecleaner a few years before; just increased her hours. Dad took over some of the work, then Mom went into the nursing home. For a while Dad did OK on his own, then broke his 2nd hip so we hired a full time aide for him and the housekeeper's hours increased again. A few weeks after Mom died, Dad went into a nursing home for the rest of his life. RH> the C=64 for 10 years, before finally upgrading to a PC thru RH> military surplus sales. I still don't use it a lot, but more than I RH> used the C=64. SH> I still have a few c64's, they are in storage now but I have an SH> emulator installed on the desktop. I think Steve has an emulator on the desktop system but I don't use that one so don't know for sure. RH> It helps to have a working oven in the house, even if it's only RH> toaster oven size. At one point we'd bought a toaster oven that would RH> hold a 13"x9" cake pan, had to pass it on (to a friend) when we SH> I can put two loaf pans in this one. I"m not sure of the size but it SH> will also fit a whole chicken. Sounds about as big as the one we gave away. I'd rather have the bigger fridge tho, since I do have a working oven otherwise. RH> By this time next week, all the trick or treaters will be in a sugar RH> coma. Down at the farmer's market today, all the vendors were passing RH> out candy to the kids so some have had an early start. SH> LOL I think our trainer will be dropping off her yearly bucket of SH> candy soon. She likes to keep us hopped up on sugar. hahaha Most often, the major sweet we have on hand is some form of chocolate. We've still got some that we got out in Ohio in May, plus bars from Aldi and some bars we got at Ikea last summer. Bit by bit tho, it is disappearing. (G) --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... I'm clinging to sanity by a thread. Hand me those scissors. --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .