A thousand pardons for going quiet the last few days. We were visiting family in PA, and there just wasn’t any free time. Lots of family to see and there was a lot for me to do. In addition, the boy had a cold, who gave it to the wife and the day before we left the girl came down with it. That meant extra clingy, moody kids and a wiped out wife.

In the other room there is a veritable cacophony of hacking, coughing, sniffling and whining. I’m thinking about sitting up on the roof for most of the day.

Oh, and this morning my throat is feeling scratchy.