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@Wendy
The new site really has a nice presentation that draws you in much more than the old site. I can only imagine the learning curve for the new platform and the stress that comes with that. I hope that it soon gets to be fun for you to be adding tweaks after the challenge of rebuilding the foundation.

I immediately liked the rotating older topics on the home page; when I first saw that I thought it would hook new visitors (and be fun for some of us long-timers). The only thing I was missing was the recent comments/replies; but it looks like that is coming together.

Thanks for all of your efforts to build this community.

I have a friend who decided to put together a family genealogy for his children and grandchildren. As part of his research, he and his siblings took DNA tests. As he expected, his siblings were descendants of his mother and father – however, he was not. It turned out that his biological father was a family friend. His parents were friends with another couple, and their families often had get-togethers. Apparently, his mother was more friendly with the other husband than anyone realized.

Wishing the best to all encountering covid. Just before christmas, I had a friend and a relative die from covid – both vaxed, but immunocompromised and in poor respiratory heath prior to covid.

Ha, I went through a major purge last year, but am now looking around wondering why I still have a lot of this stuff. It’s not that I have accumulated anything since the last purge; I think my level of sentimentality has decreased. Early 2022 purge now in process.

One of Newton’s lesser-known laws of physics is that, if you have empty space in your home, it will fill up with crap.

Interestingly, I got an invitation to my high-school class reunion coming up in a few weeks. Uh, no thanks.

It’s a milestone reunion, so it’s going to be a two-day event – a tour of the school during school hours, an indoor luncheon, a high-school football game, a local sightseeing cruise on a small boat, an indoor dinner followed by drinks and dancing. And I would have to travel across the country to get there. Plus, it’s in a conservative area where there will be low vaccination rates and mask usage. It’s kind of a checklist of all the things I wouldn’t want to do during a pandemic.

I wouldn’t have gone even if there wasn’t COVID, but sheesh.

I got the J&J vaccine (one and done!) earlier this week and didn’t notice any side effects other than I slept longer that night. My primary health care provider is part of a network that is one of the vaccine providers. They have been sending updates on their vaccine progress, and last Friday they emailed a link to schedule an appointment.

My network seems to limit the number of invitations so you have time to react. Several friends have been frustrated with other vaccine providers because the available appointments seem to disappear within minutes.

It’s interesting how some animals react to the cold. For 20 years I had two cats (both now deceased) that had very different responses.

The boy cat wanted to go out no matter how cold it was. When the air temperature dropped below -15 F, I would still let him out, but call him back in after about 15 minutes because I was worried about him.

The girl cat was exactly the opposite. One of her tenets of life was “No snow is ever going to touch these cat toes.”