LRRH, Maggie

If you know your fairy tales and take a look at Maggie’s picture posted here, you can figure out the title of today’s blog.  Except that there really isn’t a Big Bad Wolf in this story.  Or a grandma.  Or a riding hood.

Nevertheless, night before last, Maggie arrived all decked out in red with a basket of yummy food, but she didn’t even stay for my picnic.  (In fact, I have the rinsed-but-not-yet-washed plates and silverware to return at a later date.)  Yes.  “My.”  The contents of that basket were all for me!

Nyel in the Garden with Coffee

And, no.  I don’t feel one bit guilty.  As I wrote a few days ago, Nyel’s menu choices here at Emanuel are really, really good – especially considering he is on a heart healthy diet.  Mine, on the other hand, suck, and Maggie, in typical Red Riding Hood fashion, came to my rescue!

The entrée (hot) was a stuffed portabella mushroom.  It was accompanied by two salads – one, an avocado stuffed with shrimp and other delicacies and an orange pepper stuffed with chopped tomatoes and celery and…  I must confess, I was so ravenous and so overwhelmed that I enjoyed every single morsel but did not pay good enough attention to be able to enumerate the ingredients.

But what I can tell you is that there was a Halloween color scheme!!!  A black tray, orange (cloth) napkin, white plate and foods in reds, oranges, greens, yellows and other fall colors!  Imagine!  I don’t know that I’ve ever had a themed meal right down to coordinated colors!

Sign of Things to Come

It was all such a change from the last ten days of ‘hospital everything’ that it prompted us out of our lethargy for a re-visit to the Children’s Garden yesterday.  And there were all of Maggie’s fall colors again — a whole garden full, top to bottom!   For our own special afternoon entertainment, an industrious five-year-old was using a kid-sized rake to clear the leaves from the garden path — smooth rolling for Nyel’s wheelchair!  A few Thanksgiving decorations signaled that yet another holiday will soon be upon us!

Bring it on, we say!  We’ll definitely be ready to celebrate and give thanks!