It Just Crossed My Mind

This evening the matriarch went to bed with frozen strawberries, 2 peaches and an apple; how the heck does the woman peal the fruit?  Every morning, the mother-in-law brings her bowl to me with its pile of peelings and apple cores.  The remnants are for the compost.  She can only eat the soft fruit, hence the strawberries, but prefers to have peaches or nectarines at bedtime.  Somehow, she does eat them despite the tooth situation and, somehow, she does peel them.  There is a small knife in her room for fruit and whatever; but, I cannot imagine how she does it in the dark and practically blind.  Further, I have discovered the matriarch eats most of her fruit with salt; not the strawberries or raspberries, she piles sugar on them, but everything else.  She told me today she dreamt of her honeymoon trip when she was pregnant on my husband; she ate so many apples with salt, she gained 40 pounds.  She was six weeks pregnant at the start of the trip and less than 100 pounds and came back from the States weighing more than 140 pounds.  She was 40 years of age!  She really does have an indestructible constitution!