On 1/11/2015 10:03 AM, George Leppla wrote:
> On 1/11/2015 8:52 AM, pltrgyst wrote:
>> On 1/11/15 8:51 AM, George Leppla wrote:
>>> Today is my 65th Birthday (and I have the Medicare card to prove it) I
>>> woke up at 6 AM and smelled something baking. Becca had gotten up before
>>> 5 AM and made me chocolate éclairs from scratch to have with my
>>> coffee....
>>
>> I've got a few years on you, George, and even now, my wife would rag me
>> incessantly if I ever had eclairs for breakfast! 8
>
> When my MIL was 84, her sister yelled at her for eating bacon for
> breakfast because it was bad for her. Mom replied that at 84, she would
> eat anything she wanted to eat and wasn't planning on living forever.
> She lived another ten years after that... parsing away in her sleep at 94.
>
My mother was only (heh) 82 when she died. After years of being on
low-fat, low-sodium diets (cholesterol and blood pressure problems) she
pretty much told her doctors she'd eat whatever the heck she wanted to.

> I told her that if I lived to be 84, I would eat bacon dipped in mayo
> while smoking a cigar. Only 19 years to go.
>
> George L

LOL Happy B-day, George!

Jill