Thank you all for replying. It will be great to meet new folks and renew friendships with those who I have met before. Patti, how about getting together on Friday the 12th? I haven't heard from Joan. Since we will have Friday free we could come and visit you in Ocala. Name a place and time and we will be there with bells on. Monablair please let me know when you find out if you will be coming. I have talked to both Barbara and Sharon and they will be coming. Probably will be at the same restaurant as before. Renee, we will only have to spend one night in a hotel and that will be in Melbourne so I don't think we will have to worry. It looks like we will be spending Friday at my cousin's house and will head for Titusville on Saturday morning. We still need to find a restaurant and decide on a time. You gals going to Titusville have any ideas. Sandie since you live there can you make a suggestion? Liz, do you think you could meet us in Titusville on Saturday around 11 or so? I sure would love to meet you. Hopefully you can work us into your busy schedule. Anne we will be spending the night in Melbourne so can meet with you in the evening or very late afternoon. Need to have travel time from Titusville. Looking forward to meeting you. Marion and April, could we meet around noon on Sunday the 14th? You name the place and we will be there. Nothing expensive but want to have time to visit. Carol and I will head back to Ft. Myers after our get together. This is going to be so much fun. Carol and I are looking forward to meeting each of you. I hope that these plans fit into everyone's schedules.

Not much to report - more of the "same old - same old". Planned with son and partner, who have attended pizza and movie night at church a couple of times, to help to provide the salad and fixings to go along with the pizza next Saturday night, as another guy had asked me whether I'd help, but neither of us are familiar with the nuances of salad-making, and he said that he'd ask a lady who's *very* involved with church to help, and I thought it not too great to add to her burden. Since that ... the guy didn't show at a meeting at church this morning, as his father'd just died, so he's gone to deal with that. Otherwise, have been helping to dismantle and move a friend's goods from his apt., much of it to my place (basement and shed, mostly) ... ... as he's dealing with an outdated legal issue in another province, and may be out of commission for a while, as in "indeterminate period". Through the snow and wind to the library and other errands ... ... and watching the short-haired dog that I'm looking after for said friend, as she goes out to pee, etc. ... ... teeth chattering as she goes ... or is that "goes"? She likes to go into the shed where the car is parked to bark at the cat. Which cat is "hosting" a companion in recent days ... that heads for the rafters when the dog appears. Could spring be coming, do ya figger (the resident cat is a female)? As I've been reading of the concerns and triblations of many of the posters here ... am very thankful that my good health is continuing, thus far unabated. Ran out of (diuretic) pills the other day - pharmacy is faxing the doc to get a refill, gave me a 30 day supply - drug benefit pays something over half of the approx. $10.00 fee. As an aside ... fleece-lined gloves have been resident in my overcoat pocket for a couple of weeks. Plus ... renewed the duct tape on one of my overshoes, as the earlier application was getting quite bedraggled. ole joyful

Thirty was happy for me. We were able to adopt our DS after six years of marriage and surgery that left me unable to conceive. This year has been an uneasy one because my mother died at this age -- in October. It was an awful year for her, slowing dying of leukemia, and for me as her only child. DH had mixed feelings when he reached the age at which his father had died of a heart attack. Because DH had never been told he was adopted, and because all of his father's brothers also died of strokes, he'd been allowed to assume he would have the same fate. (Another example of his adoptive mother's nature.) Now DH has lived 25 years longer than his father did. And ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead.

Thanks to one and all for the Birthday Wishes to Makayla. She sure does have some great cyber relatives and very thoughtful. Mscippy- that is odd that you called Kaden a little dude, that is the nickname that my DH calls him! Patti43- the pic is kinda of on angle but she is tall for her age. Thanks again to everyone. Deb (Gramzee)