I would give my eye teeth for one of those steam engines.
Also, it is my job to tow him around and around (the back forty) while he tries to start some of these vehicles
ROFL You mean you keep him on a tether? Draggin him all over the place.... (sorry - but couldn't resist that)
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.