Making Danish and Pie

This morning has been devoted to baking or preparing to bake. My husband helped with baking an apple pie. He always peels and slices while I make the pie crust. He laughed because last night our youngest son, the professional chef, called to ask for the flour to fat ratio of the pie crust. I also started the process of making Danish. (Perhaps it isn't capitalized when it's pastry.) This is the first Christmas in a long time that I haven't had a young person helping with the dough.

My husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer about two weeks ago. After a series of scans and consultations, he has started the process of treatment that ultimately leads to five weeks of daily radiation therapy. So far there are no known metastases as all the scans were clear. His older brother died of an aggressive form of prostate cancer several years ago but that does not seem to be the type he has. Fingers crossed everyone is right.

I am working on a paper pieced quilt that I hope to machine quilt. The arm issues about which I wrote in my last entry make hand quilting more painful and since this is a pieced quilt I thought I would try machine sewing. I will let you know how all that works out.