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Last Wednesday, Feburary 14. was moving day for me. I've still got lots to move and especially unpack. But, for those who've been wondering where I have been, all you need to know is that I'm now BACK! And now it will take a while for me to go through all messages and respond to them. I will try to get back in touch with everyone. For now, know that I am in good shape -- in a senior-living facility.

On December 20th, I was notified by the management of my trailer park that my lease was NOT being renewed and I had 90 day to vacate my trailer. I have lived there for just over 10 years. The reason is that I haven't been so good cleaning the place up. I did not tell management that this was in part due to my having a small wound on my left foot and my being told to stay off my feet as much as I could. I didn't tell management about this (and I've had a special shoe on the foot for some time), feeling that any effort I made to contest their decision, though it might work, would not endear me to them. I've been looking into senior residences near me (I just turned 70 in September) and have pretty much settled on one. The rent would eat up my Social Security, but amenities include housekeeping, three chef-prepared meals a day, allowing for my cat, and other things. How much life would cost if I had to buy my own food, pay for trash pick-up, etc, would probably be more than $2700 a

I was inspired to write this by cluedog recently posting "Casper's Love Caper" to his gallery. This piece was, in turn, inspired by my commission from Kyle Miller last year, "REALLY scared!" I was surprised when I commissioned it that it was an idea that, to the best of my knowledge, no one had ever drawn before. Some background first. When I was VERY little, my favorite comic book was Casper the Friendly Ghost. Then, when I was in First Grade, my older brother took me to see Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, one of the best of the old Tarzan movies ever done. In it, Tarzan was intelligent, as he was in the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels --not that I knew this at the time. But, before the movie, the theater ran a Casper cartoon. This was a surprise to me, as I didn't know that there WERE Casper cartoons. Not long after this, ABC began running Famous Studios/Harveytoons cartoons. These featured cartoons of Baby Huey, Little Audrey, Herman and Katnip (Famous' version of Tom and Jerry