Nine Important Facts to Remember As We Grow Older #9 Death is the number 1 killer in the world. #8 Life is sexually transmitted. #7 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. #6 Men have 2 motivations: hunger and hanky panky, and they can't tell them apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich. #5 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years. #4 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing. #3 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. #2 In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal. #1 Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do today may be a burning issue tomorrow. Sources:

Rho Dodenron, yes, I do. Sometimes with just salt, pepper & butter, sometimes with various seasonings (I like it with various curry blends). I bake the raw pumpkin (cut in half, cut side down on a rimmed (because it will bleed juice) baking sheet until it is soft enough to easily push a knife through the rind and slightly caramelized around the cut edge. Then the rind will peel off easily and the seed practically fall out - so much easier that trying to deseed, peel and cut up raw.

There were so many in my family, I was eight years old before it was my turn in the bathroom.

Yes, there is always that issue with "liking" the first post. Generally, my "like" function works for the others, but just know that if I like them all and appreciate the levity.