[Sca-cooks] Fwd: Cookies OOP

[Olwen the Odd]

Baron Temur sent this along to our local cooks list.  It is so appropriate
to the cookie exchange thread I just had to share.
Enjoy!
Lady Olwen the Odd

>From: "Bill Hume" <temur at adelphia.net>

>While suffering the agonies of impending death, he suddenly smelled the
>aroma of his favorite Italian anisette sprinkle cookies wafting up the
>stairs.
>
>He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed.
>Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and
>with even greater effort, gripping the railing with both hands, he
>crawled downstairs. With labored breath, he leaned against the
>doorframe, gazing into the kitchen. Were it not for death's agony, he
>would have thought
>himself already in heaven, for there, spread out upon waxed paper on
>the kitchen table were literally hundreds of his favorite anisette
>sprinkle cookies.
>
>----- Was it heaven?
>
>-----  Or was it one final act of  heroic love from his devoted Italian
>wife of sixty years, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man?
>
>Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards the table,
>landing on his knees in a rumpled posture. His parched lips parted,  the
>wondrous taste of the cookie was already in his mouth, seemingly
>bringing him back to life. The aged and withered hand trembled on its
>way to a cookie at the edge of the table, when it was suddenly  smacked
>with
>a spatula by his wife......
>
>"Back off!" she said,
>
>"They're for the funeral."


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