I had seen the media reports about flossing myself. Here is what the American Dental Association says: http://www.ada.org/en/science-research/science-in-the-news/the-medical-benefit-of-daily-flossing-called-into-question In short, they appear to say flossing offers minimal benefits, but that since 50 percent of American suffer from gingivitis/periodontal disease, it's worth achieving the small benefit. Specifically the authors pointed out two difficulties in studying the benefits of flossing: First, people fib and say they floss more than they do, so studying the effects of flossing can be difficult based upon reliance on self reporting. Second, there are people who floss well and people who do not floss well- most do not. So even when people are telling the truth about their flossing habits, they may be very poor flossers, hence harming the studying of flossing. As a lifetime non-flosser, this article, which I read a while ago, did not convince me that my non-flossing ways were acceptable. It seems obvious to me that if I have nasty stuff caught in between my teeth that cannot be doing any good for my teeth and gums, or my overall health in general. Your physical health depends upon your mouth's health in many ways. And in many instances the health of your mouth reflects the health of your body (you may have seen the previous studies on oral health and heart disease, for example.)

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Ah! 3 katz - thank you. Of course they would taste better........I don't know why I never thought of that before. We eat them all the time but Thanksgiving is the only time we have them candied. The pies are in the ovens now so I'll have to remember that for next year.

Thank you, Flora. It is the pictures I wish I had saved. I could write the stories over almost word for word. I didn't really write them for a book....mostly wrote them for my friends. I originally wrote them on the old Meeting House forum. Altho no one uses the forum aymore and it was moved to FB, I can still access the old Tapatalk forum. I may go find the stories there, altho the pics won't show because they were uploaded for posting on Tinypic. There was a story about a horse named Wizard, some pigeons, some possum stories, a dog that raised a raccoon, the raccoons in general, a raccoon named Ninny, a possum named Woaches, a possum named Pickles, and one named Shirley. Yet to write is Emery's story, Piggy Sue's story...a feral hogs that I raised as a pet ( had her spayed, etc), Bane's story (my literally crazy horse), and probably some more. I also wrote my own life story because that was something we did on that original forum. I really don't have anyone to share my stories with because I have almost no family. One daughter...no grandchildren. No immediate family. It isn't like anyone will remember me after I am gone, and I say that not in a sad way....just matter of fact. Anyway, I have 3 or 4 of the original stories, with pictures because I shared them with sjerin. I wish I hadn't got distracted by something else and shared the rest of them while I could still get to to them.