Thanks for the welcome, Overs!
Toots, I'll take you up on your offer to sit next to you if you'll spare me some chocolate from time to time.
I'm sorry to hear you lost a chapter -- that would be agony! I totally lost a document a while ago but I've lost my memory of what I lost. So it goes.
InParticular -- snow now is just cruel.
I hope you have great boots!
Rusty, I've started to think of your flea market-going as a partial metaphor for doing a daily inventory. There are the treasures, and the fix and mends, and the stuff that fits in with other things that already belong to you, and all the stuff that doesn't have anything to do with you. I wish you a good day at the flea!