GRIS wrote:

OUT BLOWING LEAVES THIS MORNING WHILE IT WAS STILL. LEAVES AND ACORNS, THAT IS. TREMENDOUS ACORN CROP THIS YEAR; THERE WILL BE SOME TASTY VENISON THIS FALL. GOT THE PATIOS, WALKS, AND DECK CLEARED BUT THE WIND GOT UP BEFORE I FINISHED THE DRIVE. I DECLARED VICTORY AND QUIT.

PARKINSON'S IS A VERY INSIDIOUS DISEASE. MY MOTHER HAD IT, ALONG WITH MULTI-INFARCT DEMENTIA. A SAD WAY TO GO. THE ONLY BRIGHT SPOT FOR HER IN HER LAST YEARS WAS OUR SURPRISE BABY DAUGHTER. RUTHIE LOVED HER GRANDMA AND WAS NEVER SCARED OF HER. THE WAY THINGS HAPPEN SOMETIMES MAKE YOU WONDER---