Ok thread drift.....

I've started playing a wonderful but very challenging new bowed instrument, a tagelharpa.
Checked my two beehives this week during a brief warm spell- one very strong strong and active, the other is sadly dead. A new colony was already ordered for Spring though, just in case something like this happened. So they'll get installed into the deadout hive in April.
Work is hanging in there, with more jobs coming in than we expected considering the recession. Lucky!
The three kitties we had two years ago are now all passed on and we have two new adopted shelter kitties over the past year, both relatively young...Suki and Sheba. Lots of wild rumpus action around here.
and...enjoying the break from gardening while the snows fly! Pretty soon I'll order new veggie seeds.