Sounds like a nice dinner - and I'd go for the halibut and asparagus. Though I grew up literally at the beach I never developed a taste for oysters. There's too much going on in there that seems like it should be cleaned out, but people eat the whole thing. I enjoyed other seafood; I used to dig clams and wade at low tide for Dungeness crabs, and did a lot of fishing. (On a trip on Hood Canal my childhood family was camping next to a family with a Labrador retriever who had been taught to retrieve oyster shells. They would throw empties into the water and he brought shells back - usually living oysters they would eat later.)

Taking each day as they come, I can feel the prednisone kicking in. I think this lower dose will be enough to do the job; it takes days (or weeks if it is more serious) to remove pain, then the rest of the month to be sure it stays away, then tapering.

The portable pet steps fold into a compact 18" x 30" x 6" format and slid easily into the back seat to go with my friend to her house and elderly dog.