Sorry for the brief absence. It seems my ISP (Earthlink) upgraded their webhosting. One result was to knock my blog for topsy-turvy. The oldest posts appeared first and any new posts ended up at the bottom of the queue. After a few days and phone calls, this has now been resolved. Earthlink upgraded my Word Press for me (an unexpected service) and now I am back.
In the chaos, I lost two posts, but I was able to reconstruct them and repost them, just below this one. The dates are wrong, but the content is there.
The up side is I am now using the latest version of Word Press and it has all kinds of nifty features I didn’t have at my disposal before. …