>>Thought I heard something previously about your new, trimmer self, so I guess you're not such a big deal anymore!
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>I'm not half the man I used to be! Lost 121 lbs and holding.

Congratulations! That's an achievement.

>Makes going to the beach a lot more fun, unless I step on a rock and tear open the bottm of my foot again

I did that once as a kid - sliced the bottom of my heel on a clam shell.

>Wanna borrow my snow shovel?

Fortunately my Minnesota Boy keeps stuff like that around. Also those plastic "boats" we use for sleds. We even have a snow board bought at the last trip North. The bad part is that the temp was hovering around 32 yesterday and there is a lot of slush under the snow on our street. They were shoveling the gutters of the street late last night to get it to drain so there wouldn't be 6 inches of ice this morning. I haven't been out to see the results. The plow hasn't come by yet either. Of course we're woefully short on "real" plows here. I grew up in the Boston area so I know how it's done right.