A lot has happened since last we spoke ( It's not really speaking is it? It's more Iwrite and you read. But as I write of course, I'm "hearing" the words in my mind and I imagine as you read you "hear' the words in your mind. So this interchange does include "hearing".). Let me start over. A lot has happened since last week. We had our first major winter snow forecast of the season, and in spite of all the hype of the forecast, we actually got some snow--which made excellent snowballs by the way. And Santa visited the library on Saturday - there was quite the waiting line at some points. There were extraordinarily brave children who ran right up to the big elf himself, and very shy children who just managed to look at the man in red. There were some who had very organized lists and those who were obviously there for the candy canes. It was a wonderful turnout. And speaking of Santa do you realize that there are only eleven - that's 11 (I didn't mistype "elven")days until Christmas day. That means you have 264 hours, or 15,840 minutes, or 9,504,000 seconds to shop for and wrap up those presents for your family, your extended family, your cats, dogs, fish, turtles, birds, and other pets, your neighbors, your librarians, and any others I may have forgotten. In the meantime, there're lots of new books to read. Enjoy!