I cook, that solves the pumpkin thing. My friends in Chapala have never asked for pumpkin. Actually if you look at most of the canned stuff it's squash anyway. So you cook a pie crust. Put in the cooked squash, whip some cream.

As long as you have bread and chicken broth and sage and onions you have stuffing. I never stuff the bird.

My wife and I are probably starting to spend winters in the Lake Chapala Aiijic area. I spent 3 weeks there a few years back. I have 2 couples we are friends with there, on stays year round, the other winters. I asked Graham about crime and he said the area is free of the problems along the border. There sure are a lot of North Americans there, and the golf course and country club was nice, I played the piano at the club a few times. They want me to the point of "free food and beverages when you play suppers...".

The warmth does the arthritis good in the winter.

I even bought Rosetta Stone to learn Spanish.

John Conley
Musica est vita