Glad you could help your friend find the cabbage leaves. Steve S. was the one who put us on track for getting them. We have been using them but somehow our version of stuffed pickled cabbage leaves doesn't taste as good as grandma's did 80 years ago but a 12 year old g granddaughter thinks they are the best thing she ever ate and each time they visit her request is for that dish, we really don't have any particular recipe, just wing it every time but its hard to go wrong with them.

I love this, it resonates completely with my feelings about nature and its power to heal and calm. Thanks for sharing this, Gail. Ingrid

Look at that handsome young man! Sorry I missed this yesterday. I'm glad he's doing so well. With his good looks that arm is going to be a chick magnet, don't you know. My son broke his arm when he was 10 or 11 or so. He didn't need surgery, luckily, but the day he got his cast off, he did a handspring. You guessed it, back into the cast with his arm re-broken. So, tell him no handsprings when he gets the cast off.

With Dusty, glenda's son, your daughter, Jel, and hopefully Dink's horsey and Georgy's Squirrel, Henry, and probably some others I have left out (help me out if there are,) it sounds like happy endings at the kitchen table this week. Can I get an Amen?