Thank you for replying telling me how thing's are for yourself's. When my grandfather past away in 1978 we all knew it was coming, seen his health decline from heart problems. Grandfather was my first lost from illness and I was specially close to him. My granny, grandfather's wife lived 19 years past his passing away and I would go over and sit with her for a few hours, she'd talk of how much she missed him and was so alone without him. I was very young at the time plus busy raising my two young kids, didn't realize just how bad it was for her being without her spouse. Not only having to deal with her loss she also had to put up with my uncle her first born son, he wanted to put her into a nursing home right away just to get her out of her own home so he could do as he pleased. My dad and her would not hear of it and she wasn't ill nor was she having any health problems at that time. Later on in the late 80's she started going down but it was slow she started forgetting the great grand kid's names till it came down to not even knowing her own kid's names. My dad would go over to see her and she'd ask who are you...well, where do you live. It is sad and so hard to see and watch a loved one go down. My dad has his up's and down's. When he is feeling good he loves to tell jokes and friends of his beg's him to tell them. Here lies one problem: being that he does live so far 23 miles from me it is not easy going over everyday like I do. My own home is suffering some cause I cannot get around that good myself. Like the other day I left dad's house around noon time so I could come home and do some house work but I had a bad bout with my leg and foot, the pain was so bad that it kept me up at night, I could not get comfortable no matter what I did. I'm going to the doctor today to see if something can be done for my foot, It might be a spur in my heal. Plus my husband keeps me up sometimes with his snoring .... he's going for a sleep study tonight. My DH also has a bad gall bladder and will need surgery and we've been checking out trying to find a good surgeon for him. First one we went to had the personality and a wet noodle LOL, Really that surgeon left us feeling very unsure about letting him do surgery on my DH. It is wonderful to have an outlet an outreach like this where as long ago it was much harder to find someone to reach out to. Thank's again for listening to me ramble LOL

Good Lord, $40.00 for one at the clinic? Yikes! I am wearing my red shirt today also....you go girl!!! Trin

Today was the potluck luncheon and I'm just in and checking the KT. T'was a hit and what was leftover gals took home some for dinner tonight Sharing my mom's aspic 4 cups V-8 juice **use tomato juice 3 envelopes unflavored gelatin 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon cider vinegar **used white wine vinegar 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 tablespoon grated onion 1 tsp teaspoon salt dash of Tabasco sauce **Used Franks plus 1/4 cayenne pepper 1 cup finely chopped celery **left off celery and olives and used one cup of shredded imitation crab meat 1 cup sliced stuffed green olives 8 romaine or leaf lettuce leaves mayonnaise for garnish In a large bowl combine cup of the V-8 juice and the gelatin and let soak to soften. In a saucepan, heat the remaining V-8 juice, add it to the gelatin and stir till the gelatin has dissolved. Add the Worcestershire, vinegar, lemon juice, onion, salt and Tabasco. Stir well. Place the bowl in the refrigerator and chill until the mixture is slightly thickened. Add the celery and olives and stir until well blended. Transfer the mixture to a shallow baking dish or eight individual molds, cover with plastic wrap and chill until firm. Serve the aspic on lettuce leaves and top each portion with a dollop of mayonnaise. Mayonnaise I sprinkled with dried basil

I love the buffalo dip. In addition to chips or scoops, try serving it with celery or carrot sticks. Here's a newer dip (at least to me) that's a winner: --Jalapano Dip-- 16 oz Bag of frozen corn 2- 8 oz. packages cream cheese 1 Stick of Butter Garlic Salt to Taste 1/2 to 3/4 of a 12 oz. jar of Sliced Jalapeno's: drain the juice (more or less to taste) Throw everything together in a 9X13 glass pan, bake in oven at 350 for 45 minutes. Stir occasionally. (You don't need to melt or really blend everything in the beginning. , just sort of stir it together as it melts and cooks to blend it). Very easy... you can easily add a little more or less of stuff too. Serve with Frito Scoops. It's spicy hot! Men seem to love it!