Thanks for welcome. As for my age... well I will admit being over 45, but I will never tell how much. I figure since the good Lord has blessed me with not really looking my age, no one needs to know -... that sounded a little egotistical didn't it - oh well when you get a "certain age" ego is a good thing to cultivate! Sometimes anyway. Have any one of you thought that just maybe... Rick is on a ... dare I say this... a honeymoon! If I am ever blessed to find love again and he should happen to go through a war and "survive" it, you could bet I would want to get married as soon as possible. If Rick has a girlfriend and some of you say he does, If I were her I would be clinging tight and not let him go far. I mean he was in a "war" . Well, any ways, this may be why he's been away for so long! What do ya think - huh! - EAJ