Comments on: January 2, 2008 http://localhost/2008/01/02/january-2-2008/ Reflections on Living at the End of Life - MDS and Leukemia Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:56:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.28 By: Tina Newlove http://localhost/2008/01/02/january-2-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-57072 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:11:41 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/2008/01/02/january-2-2008/#comment-57072 I came across Alphie the ‘wretched brute’ while looking at chocolate lab pics as we’re thinking about getting a puppy in the spring. I have a lot more thinking to do about that but I’m glad Alphie led me here. Your writing is beautiful and I’ve felt such comfort and warmth reading your blog. My husband is an apprentice with a local pipe organ repair and refurbishing company and… I don’t know, I just wanted to say thanks and that I think your life is beautiful.
Tina
Guelph,ON, Canada

]]> By: Mindy Werling http://localhost/2008/01/02/january-2-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-56158 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:24:53 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/2008/01/02/january-2-2008/#comment-56158 Dear Connie (and Heidi),

Yum!! Now I know where I’m going for the next New Year’s meal!

One Thanksgiving, we had a traveling Tom (turkey) here in Kansas City. Similar ordeal to yours — Pat’s oven on the Kansas side quit working in the midst of cooking Mr. Tom. So, Tom was speedily driven over to Pat’s son-in-law-to-be’s house, but there was a problem turning on his gas oven. So, Tom frantically traveled across the state line to my house in Missouri, but my oven was already occupied with two corn casseroles. Fortunately, I was cat-sitting for my neighbor, so we carried Tom to her house and shoved him into her oven!! Darby was a puppy, so I took him with us. At one point, he got loose and ran down the hall and then came back into the living room with a pair of my neighbor’s nylons! How embarrassing!! I had to try to figure out where they’d been, so that she wouldn’t think I’d been snooping through her undies! Fortunately, Tom eventually got cooked and returned to his starting point in Kansas, where he was enjoyed by all. Those are the best holiday memories! When things don’t go right, I try to remember that great memories are being made!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Love,
Mindy

]]> By: Heidi http://localhost/2008/01/02/january-2-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-56136 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:03:56 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/2008/01/02/january-2-2008/#comment-56136 The now fabled Goose Meal consisted of the following:

One young free-range goose, fruit and nut stuffing prepared with home made bread, red cabbage and apples, spiced cranberry sauce, Rothe buns, lots of butter, black-eyed peas with bacon, steamed broccoli, riced potatoes, goose gravy, and Agnes’ honey cookies and Jon’s coffee for desert. Some of the recipes were ancient and others borrowed and new.

The best part of the day was the very boisterous joyful crowd, the group’s collective problem solving and of course the results – Priceless!

H

]]> By: Caroline http://localhost/2008/01/02/january-2-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-55991 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:56:56 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/2008/01/02/january-2-2008/#comment-55991 There is beauty in the iced trees and snow covered landscapes, and while we don’t miss the cold and icy roads we do miss the changing of the seasons, which take us back to our childhood and remember whens.
One has to wonder if there is a chew gene in all dogs; Alphie may be distant cousin to our Susan’s Chipper who delights in shredding all items paper and who can look both sorry and deighted when scolded.
There is no substitute for family on these special occasions, indeed at all times. We reap what we sow, and now is the time, as the elders in both your and our groups, that we look at what we have sown and thank God for the good reaping of the elders before us. God bless.

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