Three X-Rays

My son, Hunter, has had three x-rays in the last week! He fractured his right thumb playing football in PE and had to have an x-ray. Then two days later, he had a follow-up x-ray to check how his thumb was healing. On Saturday evening, he stepped on a toothpick at his friend's house. Dad decided to play surgeon and dug out two small slivers. He kept digging and Hunter was in tears. Heck, I was in tears. I had enough and decided to take him to the hospital where he could at least have the area numbed (and be seen by professionals). It turned out that getting the pain shot is just as painful as what it is supposed to prevent. And it took two shots to work. After putting a one-inch slit in Hunter's heel, the doctor dug around (just like Dad) and couldn’t find any more slivers. So another x-ray was ordered which revealed nothing was there. Maybe the x-ray should have been taken first. Thank heaven for health insurance.

Need A Recipe, Call Your Sister

My mother loves to come visit me and bake goodies. This time, she brought over a bag of apples and some butter to make apple crisp. Problem was my recipe called for brown sugar and oatmeal which I did not have. I was determined NOT to go to the grocery store six miles away. I told her I could look for another one online, but she said, “Call your sister. I don’t think we used brown sugar when I made it out there.” (“Out there” would be New Orleans or Corpus Christi or wherever Carol was living at the time). I called Carol and told her we needed “The Apple Crisp recipe” and she replied, “Oh good, I need a recipe for a roast.” Carol looked up a recipe in a “Cookbook for Boys and Girls” that she admitted to using a lot. I asked Mom for the roast recipe and relayed it to Carol—dried onion soup mix and water or mushroom soup. Cook a half hour for every pound at 350 degrees. Easy. And here’s the easy apple crisp recipe which turned out to be pretty tasty:
8 c. apples, peeled and sliced
½ c. water
2 cups sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1-1/2 cups flour
2/3 c. butter
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Layer sliced apples into an ungreased 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan. Pour water in. Mix cinnamon and sugar together and sprinkle in. Mash the butter into the flour to make crumbly. Cover the apples with the flour topping. Bake for 40 minutes.