Wednesday of last week I caught the flu and lost the ability to do anything but feel miserable. I was lucky in that my husband was staying home that week - he had no work to do in the cold, cold winter days and too much work to do fighting the negative temperatures at night. When I recovered, he succumbed and I spent the next few days nurturing both him and Yarrow, who has picked up a bad cough. The weather is strange, last week we barely got out of the negatives, this week we almost hit 50. Most of the snow is melted and now temperatures are dropping again. I miss normal winter weather - snow storms without rain to follow and deep drifts. But at least we’re all well again. And blogging should return soon!