Thanks everyone for the kind thoughts. You all are so great! I did talk to Kenzie yesterday and will get to see her when the weather lets up. The snowplow hasn't been past in 3 days. We are still hoping to have our Christmas gathering tonight with Rick's kids but we'll have to see. If the plow doesn't come by he plans to blow snow all the way to the highway. I'm doubtful as there is an 80% chance of more snow for today. Tomorrow looks promising. So I hope to go to Walmart and buy more gifts for Kenzie before we pick her up. Since SIL didn't tell anyone that he was going to bring Kenzie to IA, I had sent all her gifts to FL. The crustless cranberry pie and real whip cream was our dessert yesterday. I also made it earlier with the blueberries and it was fabulous too. Chelone, the decorations are wonderful and suit your house so well. V, the insane tree made me smile. Your nativity looks like the same figures that I have from my grandma. My mom has them too. She bought her's one at a time at the dime store. I have a few that say 29 cents on the bottom. What fun it must be to watch Misty unwrap presents. Kathy, Mr. Baby is just as cute as can be. I'm sure you have a fabulous Christmas with him around. Christmas is just so much fun through the eyes of a child. Eden, love all the Bella and Kate pictures both here and FB. I also enjoyed Brad's song. So lovely to have Ei stop in for the holidays. I love the way you decorated your porch and Scout sitting in the middle is perfect. Deanne, gorgeous card - the picture is fabulous and the border perfect. Our electricity has blinked on and off for the last 2 days so computer time is brief. My computer is old and takes so long to come back on. I did get a little time to print 3 8 x 10 garden pictures yesterday that I intend to frame and hang above my sofa. I had the local news on in the background and just heard a report from Jeremy's girlfriend about the weather where they are. She was calling in reporting. I guess I don't need to call and ask him when his GF is a reporter. She mentioned that they spent part of the day yesterday helping people who were stuck. Well, I guess I'd better get the house in order in case things do happen today. The food is all last minute stuff so I will wait to see what the weather does. Michelle

I looked at Culinary Parts but did not see Regal listed. You might Google the breadmaker name and the part that you need.

I have a zojirushi bread machine and I love it. I knew I wanted the zoji so I watched Craigslist and got one for $90. I use the dough cycle a lot. It saves me time. I can put the ingredients in at 5 am and set the timer to deal with the dough when I am home from work.I make foccacia, bagels, pizza dough. I do bake bread in the machine too and it is great for a soup and bread supper and I have several sandwich loaves we like. I would recommend getting a food scale too if you don't have one. I find bread in bread machine or by hand works best if you weigh instead of meadure.

Zojirushi makes two sizes in bread machines. The large one does bake a horizontal loaf and is an excellent machine. But, like many of the others here, I used it most for the dough cycle and then shaped and baked the bread in my regular oven. The large machine is large and expensive. It takes up a lot of counter space and it heavy, so moving it in and out of a cabinet would be awkward. I had this machine for a while. But, we are empty nesters moving to a condo, and I could not justify the space for this machine. I purchased the smaller mini ZO, which makes a 1# loaf or up to 1.5# of dough, and it is wonderful. It has some features not available on the big Zo-- the french bread cycle kneads and bakes a perfect "crusty" small loaf, just right for 2 to 4 people. And I really like the dough cycle. Just last week, I made two loaves of semolina foccacia for a dinner party. I made them one at a time on the dough cycle, the first one shaped and baked while the second was kneading. Still left me lots of free time for other stuff and I had two gorgeous fresh loaves of bread for a large gathering. I keep my small Zo inside a lower cabinet and it lifts out easily with its attached handle. The footprint is small. If you read the ratings on Amazon, there are some complaints about the large ZO, but ratings for the small ZO are 100%. My only concern, not a complaint, is that when it was kneading the semolina dough which was very stiff, the machine did walk a bit. So, I keep it well back from the counter edge. (My KA mixer has done the same thing.) The mini Zo had no trouble kneading the stiff dough, nor did it overheat. Either Zo is wonderful, so it depends on your "kneads" ;-) and available space.