And we're glad to have you back safely and on dry land again, Jean! Maybe when Caroline and I make it to our fiftieth we'll have a go at one of those uppity cruises!

Anyone else remember all those little songbooks put out by the Cooperative Recreation Service, or the wonderful variety of wooden toys they marketed? A lot of us still have boxed sets of them on our shelves. They were a bit annoying, sometimes, because the "Vermont Sings" booklet (for example) would add a few songs from Vermont to many of the songs that had appeared in other songbooks, and the contents would be a bit disappointing, since very little would be new! But some of those litte books became and remain classics. We also got out first Tangram puzzle from them, nicely crafted from walnut. Sandy