Loved the story, Sharon. The apple pan dowdy is on my list to do when we get to Florida next week! DH loves apple pie and I'm sure this will make a hit with him, too.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam