Holiday Greetings!

I wasn't going to do a year-end blog this year. I really wasn't. But then I started looking through photos from 2021 and decided that more than ever, this is the year to reach out to friends and family we have seen far too seldom since covid entered all our lives. The 12 months of photos tell me that we went to a lot of places and saw a lot of wonderful things. But in looking back, the memories tend to run together unless they included seeing old friends or meeting new ones.  With a few notable exceptions, we saw far less of friends and family than normal. And that's what matters. Friends and family.  When I roll the clock back to January 2021, we were in an Airbnb in St Pete Florida for a 1-month change of scene and a chance to spend many hours outdoors without freezing. Unfortunately, my clearest memory of that whole month was January 6. I made bread that morning (remember how it took months for stores to restock yeast?? The lines to get in? The empty paper products isles...