This past Sunday Pat and I were invited over to her mom’s for supper. It’s always a delight to have her mom Ruth cook for us. You know it’s going not only to be good but delicious.
This woman is 94 years old and in a couple of months will celebrate her 95th birthday.
For supper she fixed a ham, green beans and carrots together, potatoes, a jello salad with pineapple, had cold slaw and we had iced tea to drink.
She was planning on baking bread, I think, but her oven wasn’t cooperating by the time she needed to do that so there was sliced bread if we wanted it.
Planning ahead, she had baked a pan of raisin bars for dessert and we had coffee with those.
The supper was scrumptious I tell you for sure.
Ruth tells us she still enjoys doing it, but it takes her quite a bit longer, she says.
Later, while Pat and I were playing a couple of games of Chinese checkers, Ruth brought us ice creams cups. She got a laugh or two at just watching us play.
How we got to playing the checkers I’m not even sure.
The three of us were talking and the next thing I knew Ruth went in another room and came back with the checkers for Pat and me to play.
It’s been at least five decades since I played that. Pat had said how good she always was at playing it, and she wanted us to play checkers so we did.
She told me the first game would just be a refresher for me. It needed to be for sure. Pat’s pretty good at it.
She beat me pretty easily, and then talked me into playing another game. So, we played again.
My first thought was oh no, here we go again. But during the refresher game we played, Pat kept stressing to me to strategize.
So, as we played the second game, I tried to strategize as I kept telling myself I can do this.
I guess I strategized a little better the second game.
I actually won it. But, down deep, I really believe Pat probably let me win that game and I told her that more than once.
She wouldn’t admit it, but she also didn’t deny it. But, what the heck, win or not, it was fun playing.
It capped off spending a nice Sunday evening with Ruth.