61! That is very cool.

We are on our way home after the keys excursion. Brendon was pleased that we had the kitchen and enjoyed my meals in the lovely pool courtyard. For the chefs, we had fresh salad with avocado slices and mahi sautéed in butter and local mango hot sauce one night. Last night I made chicken in a Thai type peanut sauce I made up and brought with us along with an oriental slaw with lime juice and sesame seeds and walnuts among other things. Super yum. The first night we ate out because it was late. But all other meals we made and ate outside. Which is pretty much what I do at home, but with the sounds of roosters, because Key West. We cruised around people watching the tourists but I don’t have interest in bar hopping at this point in life. I had wine and he had rum & coke while relaxing by the pool.

Lego set spreadsheet

What a magical phrase!

That sounds very pleasant, Laura, I'm glad you enjoyed it

Very glad Mr. flea got out under his own power.

I would like to be in Key West with someone else cooking for me. That sounds lovely.

Here, enjoy this lovely remembrance of Michelle Trachtenberg by Mara WIlson: [link]

Key West sounds lovely. Yesterday it was pouring rain and cold and even hailing at one point.

That's a very sweet remembrance

Palliative care is not the same as hospice care.

This! They scared the hell out of me (and my friend who was still going to appointments with me at the time) when they referred me to Palliative Care. But I love my Palliative Care doc; she's the best!

For the chefs, we had fresh salad with avocado slices and mahi sautéed in butter and local mango hot sauce one night. Last night I made chicken in a Thai type peanut sauce I made up and brought with us along with an oriental slaw with lime juice and sesame seeds and walnuts among other things. Super yum. The first night we ate out because it was late. But all other meals we made and ate outside. Which is pretty much what I do at home, but with the sounds of roosters, because Key West. We cruised around people watching the tourists but I don’t have interest in bar hopping at this point in life. I had wine and he had rum & coke while relaxing by the pool.

That sounds idyllic and those meals sound delicious.

scared the hell out of me

Yeah. I can laugh about it now, but at my first visit with my oncologist, when she introduced herself with "I'm a palliative care specialist," I was stunned. I like to think I didn't show my panic externally, but internally my first thought was, "I didn't think I was *that* bad off! I'm not ready for hospice!" It took quite some time to get over that shock, and learn the difference.

Very sweet reminiscence of Michelle.

Though I got a jolt when I realized her childhood friend Reeve Carney was Dorian Gray on Penny Dreadful!

Yeah, palliative care called me about mom and I was all... "Which call is this?"

It was planning the eventual transition from treatment to palliative care and making decisions for a later date... not the later date.