Snarky - Adjective Easily irritated or annoyed Synonyms - choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, snippy, stuffy, testy, waspish Hosta "Snarky" - Difficult to grow - and wouldn't get along with the other hostas in your garden - because it wants to be planted upside down. lol This post was edited by DelawareDonna on Thu, Aug 28, 14 at 21:09

This has all been interesting. One thing to note is that when a woman married she was considered a "bride" during the first year of marriage. Sophie could have died during that time and been designated as such on the headstone. The designation would have indicated that yes, they were legally married but they did not share a long life together where they were known in the community as a 'couple' and they were probably childless. This archaic designation is sometimes still used today with introductions, such as "This is my cousin Jake and his new bride Mary" or "My brother has returned from his honeymoon with his new bride". Knowing local history can sometimes yield clues. Often times there was a sweeping pestilence that wiped out huge numbers suddenly and headstone markers where put up fast or further engraved years afterwards when some of the defining information had been lost or was unknown. One of the most interesting bits of history I learned was the time period designated Year Without A Summer. Large numbers of people died in the Northeast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer Here is a link that might be useful: Year Without A Summer

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There are so often recipes that call for a tablespoon or two of tomato paste, that I keep a tube in the fridge. The stuff in the tube is "double concentrated" so it gives a lot of flavor. I've not used any recipes that call for half a clove of garlic. Garlic cloves in any case vary in size so much with the largest ones being more than twice as big as the smallest ones so it seems strange to try to be very exact in calling for a number of cloves. Perhaps the recipe called for a quantity like a tsp of minced garlic and a clove made more than that? In that case, unless it is something where I want the garlic flavor to be very background, I would just put the whole clove in. For vegetables, I generally round up or down to what I have - it usually isn't that exact a thing. With COVID limiting our shopping, I've becoming even more comfortable with adjusting recipes to what I have. I do wonder what it means when a recipe calls for a shallot. When I buy shallots, they usually come in a bulb that has two sections/cloves. Is 1 shallot the whole bulb or just one of the sections? There are some pretty absurdly specific recipes out there. I recall one recently that wanted a cup of San Marzano tomatoes crushed up. The cans they come in at my usual grocery store are 28 oz. It was a bit player in the recipe (a bean dish with lots of spices) so no way would the tomato variety be detectable in the result. I just used a can of diced tomatoes (and I may have thrown in the whole 14.5 ounces). It's just calling for San Marzano because that's "in" now. Or all the recipes that call for EVOO in something that is going to be cooked a lot and have other strong flavors that hide any difference between that and regular olive oil. I think if something called for one half of a chicken breast, I'd either make a double recipe of I'd cook up the other side to use for sandwiches or a small meal.