I would give my eye teeth for one of those engines>>>
Just come on up the day after his funeral. LOL Just kidding. At my age, many of my best friends are widows. Takes a bump in the road of life to put a perspective on things. My hugh bump came seven years ago when I sat in the waiting room at the Leahy Clinic in Boston while hubby endured a 11 hour operation to remove a cancerous bladder, prostate and uretha, had his kidneys connected with large intestine and directed to a hole in his side. Then after five more hours, I was allowed to see this very sick man for a few minutes. Went out to my car at midnight and returned early morning to stay with him, sleeping on a cot in his room for seven days. At home, we had a visiting nurse for ninety more days while a stubborn incision refused to heal (staph infection?? of course nobody would admit to it). I would have given anything at this time to hear him ask,”you got a spare minute?”
At his yearly checkups the Dr claims he is getting younger every year, so hopefully he will be around for a long, long time. He does most of the cooking and always insisted on Fleishman’s Yeast until one day I convinced him to try the bulk variety in our Natural Food Store. Likes it just as well and as you said, “at just a fraction of the cost.”
We get “deer apples” at a local orchard store for $6.00 a bushel. The deer do get a few, but they are such good apples with maybe a blemish or misshapen we use them up making and freezing pies, mincemeat, applesauce etc. I should say hubby makes the goodies and I do my share by “taste-testing” for quality, flavor etc.
LOL It is strange how we get all wrapped up in one brand or another. Many years ago I had an awakening when I managed the receiving, storage, freezing and prep of vegetables for a canning plant. They processed 26 different items but we put over 600 labels on them. The labeling line could be running Aunt Lydia’s Lima Beans and 30 seconds later be running Libby’s or Van Kamp... As long as they made the grade, the label was just window dressing.
Same way with bleach - Wife always said Clorox was way better than that house brand - It took a long time to convince her that the sodium hypochlorite percentage was the same on both and water was the only other ingredient. She now checks the percentage and buys the cheapest.
I was going to tell you to call me if you had that auction but didn’t think it would be appropriate.
Back when I first started going with my wife, I worked days and she was working evenings at the hospital and lived only two blocks from it. So after I would get off work, I would go to her apartment and fix her dinner - she would come home for my meals and learned that I cooked better than she did. So, with the exception of the years when I was doing a lot of traveling, I have been the cook.
Absolutely nothing wrong with deer apples... Here we call them pick-outs and we use them for pie filling, apple sauce and apple jelly I did 3 cases of pie filling, 6 cases of apple sauce and 2 cases of half pints of apple jelly. Yum!