I'd forgotten about bean soup. I make navy bean soup using the bone from our New Year's ham. Gosh, now that the g'kids are gone (most of the time!), I wonder what our traditional big holiday meals will be? If we get something like a small Cure81 ham, there won't be a bone. Hm. Good thing there's plenty of time between now and the new year to "hatch a plot," as my daddy used to say.