Subj : Greasy Spoons
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Fri Apr 11 2025 14:45:10

Hi Dave,

 DD> beginner docs around. The doctor I'm seeing Thursday is also a
 DD> professor of Internal Medicine.

 RH> Sounds like you're in an area with lots of good care. We've debated
 RH> moving out west when my MIL is no longer with us but haven't fully
 RH> decided yet. One reason for staying in this area is that we're well
 RH> established with good medical care and a lot of specialised care
 RH> available in the area if needed.

 DD> At 82 I don't make long-range plans.  Bv)=

 DD> Quite so. We even have the Simmons Cancer Institute.

Not heard of that one but I presume a top tier one.

 DD>      8<----- CLIP ----->8

 DD> plate/bowl if I set it down for her - cleanere than had I washed it in
 DD> the sink for the most part. Unless I've had General Tso's Chicken.
 DD> Something in that she turns up her nose at.

 RH> Does she push the dish away? The last cat we had did that when the vet

 DD> No, she just sniffs it and goes into another room. Jasper does the
 DD> same. He doesn't get the dishes as clean as Izzy. But, he's 15 years
 DD> old and
 DD> that's pretty ancient for a mutt.

I know, the last dog my folks had was well up in his years. Problem was,
my parents were also, so he didn't get the care he needed. At the end,
Dad was going to load him in the car (with help from Deborah when she
came up) to take to the vet; dog pased away before she got there. A
neighbor with a back hoe dug the grave and laid the dog in it, dad
wasn't able to do even that.


 RH> put her on a lamb and rice diet. Out of curiosity I bought a bag of
 RH> Purina Lamb and Rice kibble for Sam; he didn't care for it--ate it
 RH> reluctantly--so I went back to his usual kibble. As he got older, he
 RH> liked it with a bit of liquid (gravy, if we had it on hand, water if
 RH> not) added. We gave him a small scoop of canned dog food as well; that
 RH> dog ate quite well.

 DD> Cats are a different class of moocher. I had a cat once that followed
 DD> me around like a dog and demonstrated several dog-like traits. So much
 DD> so
 DD> that I named her "Spot". One time I shared some leftover on the plate

Wasn't that the name of Data's (from Star Trek, The Next Generation) cat
also? My youngest sister just adopted a rescue kitten, part Bengal name
Larry.


 DD> spaghetti w/meat sauce. Spot licked the sauce from the hamburger and
 DD> the noodles and left them behind. I really hated it when she
 DD> contracted feline aids and I had to tell the vet to do the obvious.

It's never easy; we had to give up our last cat because of health
issues. Folks that adopted her specialised in taking cats with health
challenges so I hope she lived to a ripe old age. Never knew how old she
was; she was abused as a kitten and adopted out of a German animal
shelter.

 DD>       Title: Sauce for Fireside's General Tso
 DD>  Categories: Sauces, Oriental, Chilies
 DD>       Yield: 3 Ounce

 RH> I've never ordered General Tso's chicken, prefer other dishes. Steve
 RH> has, from time to time, but thinking back, don't think he has in the
 RH> past few years. Maybe losing his heat tolerance?

 DD> Regular spicy stays with you .... which is all that Tso usually has.
 DD> But really spicy/hot/incendiary requires training/maintenance. I don't
 DD> go for stuff as hot as I used to - for that very reason. But I still
 DD> put a glug of Frank's in my tomato juice.

I've come way down on my heat tolerance level. It was a high medium in
AZ and first part of HI, now down to mild with a bit of a kick.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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