OK - I haven't posted for a while, I didn't even see a computer for 9 days after the blackout. I went for a computer free vacation and not only survived by thrived in upstate NY cooking a lot of the great products that are still grown in NY State. It's a great year for corn and tomatoes and cabbage and peaches and I got introduced to yellow watermelon - delicious!

My only news fix was my morning call to my mother - the big news of course the UN bombing in Baghdad. No comment - we will let actions speak for themselves and hopefully the votes will come together next year for some saner policies.