Glad to hear you cat is doing better, Steve. Here in Pennsylvania, Casper the cat was provided with brand new toys this week and is loving his new window perches...sitting in the living room window and the front bedroom window watching the world go by while twitching his tail.
The exciting news this week is that my 9-yr-old, 3rd-grade, granddaughter received her first invitation to the National Young Scholars Program http://www.nationalyoungscholars.org/index.cfm. The excitement was palpable! I know many such invitations will follow over the years. Such an exciting day.

We are having the same weather Steve is having in RI. Yesterday was a beautiful day. It was hard to believe that on Weds we have six beautiful inches of snow...it hung on everything...looked like it was early January, not early March...and yesterday it was almost gone and the temps were in the low 50s.