Telephone Sanitization

January: named for Janus, a god who looks both ways in time, so to speak.

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season, and I know more than a few people are very glad the days will now be getting longer again.

We are back from our vacation in Florida and feeling refreshed (and well fed --- mmm, sushi! crabs! fried bass!).  Casey will be welding again tomorrow and today I am catching up on house chores. It will be nice to start off the new year extra fresh (though cleaning has it's own hazards, especially when the desert puts a hurting on all your clothing), and we have lots of fun, productive projects coming up in the months ahead.

The first day after we got back home, the dogs were still a little mad at us for leaving them behind, but they are over it now (we did bring back a couple new toys, after all). 

Arick took good care of them both (read: spoiled them the whole time) and we really appreciate his help as well as Kathie & Bob's hospitality.  Without them, we couldn't have taken any kind of vacation!

Thanks are also owed to Courtney & John for making sure we had every opportunity to widen our pallets and watch the "speakies" in surround sound.

Thanks also to Arthur, for helping us with our video on wind turbine blades and for donating so many blades/parts for our wind power experiments!

And to everyone else, too many wonderful people to name here, who helped make 2011 such a wonderful year.

Thanks for reading, and now I must get back to laundry!