Crazy, busy weekend here again due to many things. Thanks for all the cool and supportive responses. All of the troops need those no matter the country. Justin knows about all y'all and as always asked what's up with your foodie/cooking friends....way before his military thing. We were talking today at the lake and he thinks he was...yikes.. 13 or 14 when he first tried Sharon's pickles from a swap years ago. Man time flies! Thanks again everyone but this guy has to get to hit the hay so to speak. Justin and his group got the best of me at the lake today. OY! I'm starting to feel my age.....LOL! David

Glenda, I'm 74 and I woud find it amusing if I overheard a conversation like that. We all know people that are 'old' at 60! They walk like an old person, they talk like an old person and they think like an old person. Age is a state of mind. Exercising and keeping active keeps you young. I'm still walking five miles a day or eighteen holes of golf and I know people a lot younger than me that cannot do that. You're doing water aerobics, weights, etc. You go girl. Just laugh it off. Don't you remember when you were a teenager and thinking that 35 was old?

i had a fried bologna sandwich w/ white bread. an all around splurge for me lol i don't eat lunchmeat much, don't fry things infact i blot my fried low fat beef bologna LOL and don't eat white bread ever. it's a comfort food to me, it's from my childhood and today was cool and cloudy at 73 in orlando, a gloomy day needing comfort food :-) i made paella valencia for dinner, a cookinglight recipe. i'll deal w/ boning out yesterday's turkey tomorrow a.m. ~ liz

Wonderful - this looks like a keeper, Glenda. Best wishes for Parke, Sr., Parke, Jr., Tracie, and you as this next step begins. I hope that this is everything that you all have wished for.