Mike, It looks great. If you do have to move, I hope you move to a place with great gardening potential. You don't have to grow a lot of veggies to grow them well, and clearly you are growing them very well. Dawn

Do you know about meetup.com? Look it up online -- you find people with similar interests -- I found French conversation, my neighbour joined people who want to speak Italian at dinner. Cooking, reading, dancing, nature, so many interests. Sometimes only 3 people in the group. It opens your pool of acquaintances and maybe you'll find friends. You can choose activities by distance from your home. I myself am fortunate. I live in the city and a neighbourhood with longtime coffee shops. There are about 6 of us who have coffee at varying times, sometimes planned, sometimes on the spur of the moment. Sometimes all 6 but usually just one or two. I have lived here for thirty years and though it's a big city, the neighbourhood feels like a small town. Could you try joining some community improvement association? I wish you some easy-to-get-together friends!

I grew it in 2016. Mine didn't seem to have been entirely true to type, but it was pretty similar. It had decent production and aesthetics. It was one of my later (not latest) tomatoes. I don't think my growing conditions were ideal for its flavor (it was very mild for me). People have been raving about it for a while now. Before they're ripe, they look like giant beefsteak Green Zebras. I grew saved seeds in 2017, but most of them ended up potato leaf (it's supposed to be regular leaf). So, since that's a recessive trait, I'm thinking if no seeds were mixed up, they must have been cross-pollinated before I got them (and likely again in my garden last year). However, my Missouri Pink Love Apple (I saved seeds from it last year and grew them this year) looks a lot like it, this year, except instead of stripes, it has lots of long freckles, which I at first thought were stripes (it was decently prolific, but it didn't have much flavor). There might be some fruit out there on the PL plant that came from GGWT by now.

I have one friend who has been on replacement hormones, for about 8 years. She says she will be weaning off them soon, to see if she has less severe symptoms now, so that she no longer feels the need for them. The rest of our circle of lady friends, who are not on any, all complain of dry skin, some have thinning hair, etc. Our friend on HRT does not have dry skin and does seem to be looking younger than us now. I think for the first few years post menopause, the rest of us didn't really look any older than her. But by about the fourth year, we all seemed to be showing more deep wrinkles around the eyes, 'old lady hands' and crepey neck skin, and she clearly didn't seem to be aging at the same rate as us, physically. Her own sister, who is 3 years younger than her, but not on HRT, now looks a year or so older than her. So to be perfectly honest, I do believe that being on HRT does keep one looking more youthful. As well, the estrogen we lose through menopause, is what causes women to then have the same rate of cardiovascular disease as men. So clearly, there are great benefits to not being depleted of estrogen, because it keeps our arteries more healthy, just as it does for our hair, skin and nails. But prolonged use of HRT can of course be risky for some women. On my mother's side, I have cousins who have died of both breast and ovarian cancer. I know that just like birth control pills, HRT has changed through the years. They're always improving the exact science of getting the hormone dosage to not be higher than what it needs to be, to lessen any health risk. If I had no family history with breast and ovarian cancer, I might consider being on them, mostly to stave off the risk of heart disease. Each individual has to weigh the pros and cons.