Hi again cousins, I'm sending this as a separate message from the Coffee because not everyone participates in them. I've been rather productive this week and everyone needs to be made aware of a major change there. But first I want to tell you about some other changes .... 1. The Christmas pages are down; our winter look is now online. I hope you like it. 2. The parlor and kitchen pages have new furnishings at the tops of each page. The wallpaper is the same, though. 3. All the queries are online at the Homestead. If you submitted a query BEFORE January 1st this year, please check it for clarity and correctness. Effective January 1st (actually today, now) I am no longer accepting manual queries for the Homestead. In place of our normal procedure, I've installed a queries board. Now if you wish to place a query at the Homestead... just like at the Cottage, you'll type your own query and have it online in seconds. You _didn't_ forget about the query board at the Cottage, did you??? :) The reason I did this is because last year when I was so, so busy, I got behind in uploading the queries. I didn't like the fact that I was only able to get to them an average of every 1-1/2 months. Not willing to risk that again, and because I plan to heavily publicize our domain this year, I'm making every attempt to get our sites organized as quickly as possible. Next week I'll begin storing the gifts away... I hope this finds you all having a super, relaxing Sunday. :) Colleen