OK! After the last couple of whirlwind post-Acadia-road-trip months spent adjusting to huge changes in our family schedule and routine (which have included having my scrumptious grandchildren a lot), during which time I have barely worked in the studio, I'm back! It's a bright, sunny autumn day, the valve in my acetylene torch is open, the pickle's heating up, with the quench bowl freshly washed and full of clear, clean water, and I've got a sharp new blade in the saw and a new bit in the drill! I'm ready to go! [The perfectionist in me is just screaming because Blogger changed the blogspot format and the text colors (the choices of which are now fairly gruesome), and I can no longer get the shade I've been using all along. This might call for radical changes ; ) ]