I'm back

...from a nice tidy month-long hiatus.  It's not been a good month, all in all, with several minor-but-cumulative family issues, tech trouble, and February's usual weather conspiring to make me stare morosely at not-important computer screens for most of my free time. Not too bad a month exercise-wise, not very good food-wise,violins are progressing nicely, the house is a state, the camera is broken again.  In light of that list of life events that define whether you're under stress or not, like death, divorce, childbirth, moving house, major job change, all that: there's none of that.  But getting kids into snowsuits mutiple times a day for weeks and weeks is not on the list and it's just tiring.  But it poured rain today, which bombed a lot of the not-yet-ossified snow; I walked to the Village from work yesterday; and we had salad for supper for the first time since before Christmas.  So March will be better, I think.