Even after years, we still feel the pain. Tough Irish is right.

losing your "tough Irish" Mom to breast cancer.

she. the pics from the White House and the Naval Observatory

Sorry about your friend and all the friends, mothers, sisters, and daughters who have been taken from us.

I want to say.. those are stunningly beautiful pics from our White House and the Navel Observatory. So many people wanting to help~

To the Cure~

One way or another it's touched all of us through families or friends, if we're beyond high school anyway.

Hope no one takes what I'm about to say as out of place in any way, but I want to pass along something Dr. Oz said the other day. My figures won't be exact but close enough to his statement. A new major study was released recently saying females between the ages of 14 (or 16?) and early 20's who ate the equivalent of 4 tablespoons of peanut butter every week saw around a 40% drop in later breast cancer rates. Even though my two dogs are lucky enough to eat Purina, which many vets call Never Die, I've never had a dog that didn't get peanut butter every day. They usually surpass breed life expectancy by quite a few years, and in excellent health.

Yesterday I went grocery shopping and found that the 5-lb tubs of peanut butter that had cost $8 and change have now risen to $11. We go through almost 2 tubs a month. So guess what I'm growing next year - wait for it! - peanuts! Might keep a commercial tub on hand for emergency or winter, but mostly we're going fresh from now on. Don't feed single whole peanuts to dogs or small kids, though, as choking might result.