Three Cheers and a big mug of eggnog for our poets. What delightful verse: what imagination. Keep up the versifying, and when the muse caresses your brow, please share your thoughts with us. --------------------- We got our first snow Saturday night, after "suffering" with 50 degree weather! Even the forsythia thought it was spring and started blooming. LEPPO sits by our garage and the winter tarp is all white. I'm sure our squirrels are checking to see if they can make a nice cozy nest in the corner between cabin side and cockpit coaming. They've done it in prior years, and even cans of moth balls placed there didn't disuade them. Maybe I should try and train my boating squirrels to act as crew in summer. Probably would make good foredeck hands, and I could imagine that they would be the greatest to go retrieve a halyard that got away. I'll have to give that one more thought. But for now, let me wish you all a Merry Christmas and a good 2002! Connie & Katrina Benneck ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.