Friends came to dinner last night...Pam, Becky and John...While the chicken thawed, I gathered beets, potatoes, zucchini and onions from the garden...Everything was eventually sliced, diced, breaded and ready for the oven...Fresh garlic and dill sprinkled over the potatoes, balsamic vinegar and oil over the beets and greens...Everything went into the oven, timed to be ready about 4:30...Dinner rolls, wrapped in foil, waited patiently on the counter to be warmed for only 15 minutes...I sliced fresh tomatoes while Herb set the picnic table then poured me a glass of wine and himself a beer...We had a few minutes before our guests arrived.
This dinner of plain, wholesome straight from the garden food, eaten and enjoyed on our deck was a special dinner as Pam had received word Monday morning that her sister Jude had died after a long, seven year battle with colon cancer...Pam and Becky struggled with words at times, as they trying to express their feelings, as they talked about the last seven years and Jude's struggle as she, a single Mom raised her two boys and kept a business going while she underwent surgeries and chemo after doctors gave her 6 months to live...Being a self employed person, she also had a continual battle with the insurance company and paying the huge deductible that started over every year...She beat all the odds by living almost seven years...Thinking many times that the end was near, she tried to prepare her boys for life without her...Although they are still too young to lose their mother, they are of age, 23 and 19, making lives of their own and will live by her example...I've taken a quote that was used in a newspaper article written about her in the "Bend Bulletin" in 2011...When some people referred to her as a hero, she didn't think the term fit and replied.. "Really what other choice do I have?" She said. "I either fight like hell or I die." This is the legacy she left for her boys, and in every sense of the word, she was their hero...Hugs To All...OWAV:)
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