good evening all... lots of other things happening which necessitated an extended absence from online life and my bench. so all the work-in-progress that was piled there and being worked on, is still piled there, only just waiting to be worked.
i think things are shifting back to some semblance of normal now and i should have more free time for hanging out here and at my bench but who knows? there is what i think about things and there's what it is.
anyway, i don't imagine that i am going to go back and read the forty or fifty pages of posts between now and my last visit, so maybe someone can give me a synopsis?