Hey, Maeve:

I'm very sorry to hear about the cast on your left arm. Hopefully you're at least sight handed. Wha hoppen? I'm sure it must be a difficult adjustment to life with the cast making it difficult to do some things that we take for granted. Hopefully, everything will be back in perfect working order when they take the cast off.

I took Ruth out to dinner tonight at an upscale restaurant, with live music and excellent food. This has been a hard, but very blessed winter. It seems like we haven't had a stretch of more than four or five days when one or the other of us didn't have a delibitating health problem. That's something we're not used to. Part of the blessing has been that both of us haven't been down at the same time. I just wanted to celebrate us both feeling good today, with colds finally diminishing. It felt good to get out and have a really good meal.

I'm too full for the lemon pound cake, but thanks so much, anyway.