Wow, sorry about losing your business & home, Kim, but glad you have family that you can get along with to lend a hand. Hope things turn around for you soon. Let's hope things really are turning around for everyone, as the media is telling us.

I wonder though - stopped in this morning at the place I used to work and things aren't looking good there yet. When I started there in June 1998 it was a 3 man operation. It grew to a 7 man (OK, 6 man and one really good woman) operation before the economy went to hell. When I was let go in Jan. of '09 there were then 4 left, and as of just a couple of months ago it's back down to limping along with 3 people. Our problem here is that much of the economy was for 50 years based on the building industry, with more people moving to sunny Florida year after year, and I was involved in construction and construction supply for for almost 30 years. Now the few options there are for employment are servicing all those transplanted people in one way or another, which I'm sort of in now in a backhanded way because I figured out when I recovered from my back surgery and was ready to go back to work that it worked out better economically for us both and quality of care wise for me to take care of my mom, who has dementia, full time. Or I could have gone completely broke maybe working part time somewhere if I could find something while my mom went broke in six months paying for full time care. Turns out I'm cheap compared to professional aids.