AlleyGator wrote:
> "jmcquown" > wrote:
>
>> I never saw it made with one of those forms. My friend Bettie and
>> her mother (now Bettie's daughter, since her mother had a stroke)
>> use a pastry wheel to cut the sheets of dough after dropping rounds
>> of filling and pressing in between. They cut it about about every 2
>> inches or so.
>>
>
> You know, I've been looking around for one of those serrated, wide,
> cutter-crimper wheels for years and al I've found is the equivalent of
> a sharp-blade pizza cutter. I just cut them out with a pizza cutter
> after sealing them with my fingers and then used a fork to kind of
> pretty it up. If I could find one of those tools, I might start
> making it myself again. BTW, I remember reading that you were going
> on a trip soon. All the best, stay safe and have a good time.

Thanks! I leave early Wednesday morning for Kansas City. The art show is
in Prairie Village, KS. Was a very good show last year and we're hoping to
do even better this year. Lots of return patrons there and some new ones we
met last year. Hopefully more new ones this year!

How is
> your dad, by the way? Hope he's doing good.

He's doing fine. I talked with him this morning and he was going to wash
his car. Quite an improvement from just a couple of weeks ago! They are
also looking for boxes to pack up stuff for Hurricane Season.

My mom is 82, never been
> sick a day in her life until a few years ago. Now all of a sudden
> over the last 2 or 3 years she seems to have aged about a 100 years.

I'm so sorry to hear that.

> She has fibromyalgia, and we think she's showing signs of impending
> Alzheimer's (you know, getting lost 3 blocks from her house on
> numerous ocassions, things like that). She had a cat scan 2 weeks ago
> and they say there's no real evidence of it. But she's fallen and
> hurt herselff, I believe 5 times in the last 2 months or so. My dad
> died about 20 years ago, and she really never recovered from it,
> although she's been trying to keep up with everything he did. They
> always won an award from their city that they only give out to about
> 20 homes a year for the most attractive, well-kept home, and she's
> killing herself trying to keep it up. I seriously think she's not far
> from a "care-center" of some kind, but you might as well put a bullet
> in her head. It would just kill her. I told her she could come live
> with us, as has my wife, but she'll have nothing to do with it. Pride
> is not always a good thing. She'd be just fine here, and surrounded
> by people who love her, but it ain't gonna happen - I promise you
> taht.

Dad is helping their neighbor, who is about 8 years older than he is. She
couldn't figure out how to open the door to her laundry room a few weeks
ago. He had to show her how to do it. (sigh)

It's a bitch getting old. But I can sure understand wanting to be
independent as long as possible. My LLL's mom is 89 and while she gets on
okay, she needs some help around the house and won't allow it.

Jill