Back Again
Ok, so I am stepping back up to the podium after a 4 year absence....Anybody miss me?? Perhaps a brief-ish update for those who don't get to personally keep up with what happens out here in the hinterlands...

1. We have had the first snow of the season up here and it was right on schedule for my birthday, thank you very much. Yes, you can all blame me for that.

2. We were adopted this past spring by a feral calico kitten who assures us that the world does indeed revolve around her and only her. She has inveigled her way into the house (no small feat, given Rob's severe allergies as a child) and now onto the bed during the day, where she has commandeered my afghan. A cat bed has been knitted and is going to be felted down today to offer her an alternative. Photos of Calliope to be added when I learn how to run a computer!

3. I have left my job working in home care and have returned to pediatrics. Definitely not where the bucks are, but I am ever so much happier.

4. Rob works essentially for Whirlpool doing trainings in Eastern NYS.

5. We have added on to the house and now have a great deck and screen room in which we and a couple of favored Rennies pretty much spent every breathing moment this past summer.

6. I have added yet another crafty sort of pursuit to my repertoire and can now semi-competently spin. Sheep fleece (and alpaca and angora and cashmere) rocks! :-)

That's all the news that is of even minor interest (welcome to Sterling in the off season)