Dear Folks, This afternoon I heard a knocking on my door and discovered it was my next door neighbor who was delivering my daily newspaper and mail to me. Normally he just leaves it in the canvas bag I've tied to the outside door knob but when I went to the door he wanted to show me the two pieces of mail that he had retrieved from the bottom of the ditch near my mail box. They had been water soaked and had dried off, but in the meantime both of them ended up stiff and dirty to an extreme. One of them I could recognize as a statement regarding my credit card but the other one was totally washed out blank with the exception of a hand pasted postage stamp on the envelope. That one I knew was a personal letter to me. It was still sealed and when I opened it up I saw that it was from Rachael thanking me for sending her the recipe booklets of mine several months ago. In fact she wished me a Happy New Year. At least I could read her note. Regarding my credit card statement, at first I shivered when I saw that my payment was due on February 18, but when I checked the balance on the bill I saw that it was $0.00. Therefore it wasn't overdue. But here's the thing of it. It was obvious that both of them were posted in the middle of January but managed to survive in a ditch covered in snow until the snow finally melted recently. Rachael wished me Happy New Year and now it's the first day of spring. Yes, both of them were finally delivered to me by my friendly neighbor, the post man. We both enjoyed the mystery of both of them. vee