Thank you, Karen, for the warm wishes. We can use them here on the second day of spring, it being 21 degrees F. this morning. Not my idea of spring, I can tell you, especially after seeing your glorious photos of Morocco.
They may not call this cold in Quebec, but I call it cold here!
I LOVE limericks.
This is one of my very favorites. It has nothing to do with the current conversation, but here it is anyway (just know that the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher was a 19th century Brooklyn minister. Limerick was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was not normally so frivolous):
The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher
called a hen a most elegant creature.
The hen, pleased with that,
laid an egg in his hat,
and thus did the hen reward Beecher.