Subj : Presents was:Scones was:
To   : Shawn Highfield
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Wed Nov 06 2024 13:56:11

Hi Shawn,


RH> be eaten bu either of them. Multiply it by ever how many people are
RH> in a place like that and you get bland, boring food.

 SH> Exactly!  That's why I guessed they didn't use her recipes.

Plus the fact that if even a quarter of the occupants had done so, there
would have been a lot of different recipies for the same dish, again
satisfying only the original contributor.


 SH> Seasoning?!  No, this is for a home.  We just boil everything and slop
 SH> it on a plate.
RH> That's about right.

 SH> :)

My in laws were in an assisted living place in Florida for a couple of
years, had the only unit with a working stove. (Mom wouldn't move in
unless it was working.) I suspect it's now non working but Mom used it a
lot, cooking for herself and Dad, baking (lots of cookies for the
staff), even doing a small turkey one year for Thanksgiving. That year
we came down and I made my grandmother's green bean recipe on that
stove and Steve's older sister (living in the same town) brought
something so we had quite a fancy dinner. The next year Covid killed any
travel plans, then my in laws moved up to New York State.


RH> Definatly! She's also a nurse and goes with Mom for her medical
RH> appointments.

 SH> That is quite handy!  Same with me I have my sister who's a nurse.

Helps to have a second person, especially one who is trained in the
medical field for times like that. I know Mom wouldn't catch all that a
doctor told her if she went by herself, or get things mixed up, so the
(trained) second set of ears is good. I presume you run things by your
sister for verification also.

 SH> handed person who the teachers smacked until she learned to use her
 SH> right hand.
RH> My parents/teachers foreced me to use my right hand for a number of
RH> years; I think I was in my early teens when I switched back. It just
RH> felt more comfortable. Now, to a certain extent, I'm ambidexterous
RH> (or as Steve likes to say, "amphibious").

 SH> She never did switch back, but she would have also been quite a bit
 SH> older then you, she was born in 1929.

That was the year my mom was born. Her handwriting was always bad; we
called it "chicken scratch" because it looked like a chicken had walked
across the paper. She said that her father was a left handed but forced
to use his right hand child; I've halfway wondered if that was the same
situation for her.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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