Hi everyone. Thank you for the sweet comments. I'm sorry I haven't explained my absence at The BLOG until now. Turns out, four days into the new year, I found myself in the hospital ICU with a collapsed lung. I spent 20 days in the hospital and then weeks at home recuperating. I'm feeling better now, but I'm by no means back to normal. I have not given up on The BLOG and will try, time permitting, to post now and then until I recover fully. Hope to get everything back to normal soon. :-)