Up until Dec. 17, when she really started getting sick, she was still driving and doing her own housework.

Just about everybody in Brookneal knew her. She just had a way about her.

Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance

I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.