A-Z Challenge Reflections

Now for the last formal part of the A-Z Challenge  Reflections

I was so relieved when I finally did the Z post for the A-Z Challenge, I didn't think that I would post again for a while. But that wasn't correct. I was happy to get back to the unrestricted posting of yore. I did a Second Look post the very next day because my yard was teeming with things to share.

So, what did I think of the whole A-Z exercise? Quite frankly, it took more time than I should have let it take. At times, there were more important things to be done than to think about what I was going to do for the letter J. But a challenge is a challenge, and I was determined to finish it.

Even though I gave the Challenge a higher priority than it should have had sometimes, I liked the creativity of coming up with a post for each letter. Because of it, I wrote some posts that I would never have thought about before. And some of them meant a lot to me. I also visited some interesting blogs and made some new friends. Some of the blogs I visited were not subjects that I would normally be drawn to, but I found them interesting all the same.

If I do the A-Z Challenge again, what would I do differently? First of all, I would anticipate it and start collecting ideas for posts ahead of time. This time, I signed up at the last minute and didn't really understand the whole thing. I was always scrambling to get something ready for the next day.

Do I think I will do it again? I'm not sure. I'm thinking about a 6 months challenge with a new letter every week instead of every day. That would be more my speed. We'll just have to see when next year rolls around what I will do.

Also, a quick note. Thanks to the sponsors of the challenge. It was well organized and I can't believe that the few of you visited each and every blog several times. I was amazed that you took the time to do this and I was thankful for your encouragement. 

A is for A-Z Challenge

EEK! How did that happen? I have been toying with the idea of doing the A-Z Challenge, and now it's already April, and time for it to begin. The A-Z Challenge is a blogging challenge to post every day in April, except Sundays, with each post related to a letter of the alphabet. There are 26 days in April without Sundays, so it works out nicely. 

I've done this challenge a few times in the past and have a love/hate relationship with it. I find posting daily arduous, but I am often more creative when I have a deadline every day. So, I guess I'll give it a go for a couple of weeks anyway. I'll be traveling at the end of the month with unpredictable internet, so I may pick the challenge up in May, where I leave off. If I had been coordinated, I would already have my posts ready. But that didn't happen. 

People often post with a theme, and I tried that once but didn't find it any easier than random topics. I've been toying with the idea of looking through the Wayback Machine and reposting things from the past. I've been casually blogging for 14 years, so it could be interesting to take some trips down memory lane. And if past experience with this challenge has taught me anything, I never end up where I thought I was going to go.

So, without further ado, let the challenge begin.

Until next time...

A is for April and the A-Z Challenge

Welcome to the exciting month of April when I'm once again participating in the Blogging from A-Z Challenge. This challenge asks you post every day in April, except Sundays, with each post corresponding to a different letter of the alphabet. Except Sunday, you say, "Isn't today Sunday?" Well yes it is, but that's what happens when April happens to have five Sundays.

I've done this a couple of times in the past, 2015 and 2016, but didn't participate in 2017 because, quite frankly, it's exhausting. Posting every day with constraints is definitely a challenge for me, but I'd thought I'd give it a try this year to see if it would help me to get into the habit of blogging more regularly. The old hands at this challenge already have most if not all of their posts ready to go. But not me. I've been doing well enough to get a post out every week or so. Planning ahead just hasn't been in my schedule. So follow along as I scramble this month to post every day with a different letter of the alphabet.

As you know, today is also Easter, so my blogging time is up. Time to work on getting ready for Easter dinner which is at my house this year. See you tomorrow with the letter B

Happy Easter!

An Easter card I found in my Mother's things that I made in third grade.

A is for A-Z Challenge

How did the time get away from me? It seems like only a year ago that I signed up for the A-Z Challenge the first time. Some of you may remember that was when I posted every day in April (except Sundays) using the letters of the alphabet as guides.

And it seems like only 11 months ago, I said that I wouldn't do it again. It took too much time to come up with a post every day. And then I said, if I did it again, I would do a themed month to make the topics for the post easier to come up with. And then I said, if I did it again, I would plan ahead and have an outline and and several posts written.

So I seem to have selective amnesia because I've signed up for the A-Z Challenge again and I have no theme, no outline, or posts written.  I think I must be crazy because I'm gonna give it a go. We'll see what happens.

(BTW, if anyone has an idea for one of the posts, I welcome all suggestions. I'll work them in if I can.)

A-Z Wrap Up

or What am I doing with all of my free time?

Last Saturday was the final post for the A-Z Challenge that I participated in during the month of April. Some crazy people had three blogs going during that challenge. One was plenty enough for me.

Upon reflection, this year was easier than last year. Even my husband noticed that I wasn't as stressed trying to keep up with daily posting. That's not to say that I wasn't stretched doing it or should I say stressed, but it was better. However, I can't quite put my finger on the reason.

Many people had a theme for their month of posting such as a travel log or writing techniques (many of the participants were writers). And I swore, after last year, if I ever did this again, I would only do it with a theme. However, that didn't happen.

Then I said that I would look ahead and have my alphabet planned out with topics. Well, I tried to do that but, I couldn't come up with much. Actually, it was easy to come up with words and topics, but thinking of something to write about them was difficult. So that also didn't happen.

So what did happen? I think, this year, I didn't try as hard to make the words and topics fit the letters. For example, the letter O was about M&M's. Logically that topic should have been under M but I stretched it with the title, Only the Red. In addition, I tried to get ahead on Sunday, our day off. I usually wrote Monday and Tuesday then which took some of the pressure off at the beginning of the week. Also, friends were suggesting topics for me which helped. I couldn't always used them, but they did help spark my thinking.

So the same question as last year. Will I do this again? Maybe. I think it took me out of my comfort zone with both topics and frequency and that was a good thing. Also, I enjoyed  the challenge. Let me rephrase that. I enjoyed completing the challenge. I wasn't always thrilled with the work and time it took, but it's good to say that I did it. But a month was long enough for me and I need to resurface and catch up on some things that were neglected. However, I hope to maintain some of the momentum I gained during April.

And before I finish, I also want to say thanks to all of the dedicated volunteers who made this challenge possible.

Now it's time to get ready for tomorrow's Second Look. :)

M is for Monday Musings

Here I am halfway through this A-Z challenge and I'm finding it as difficult as always. As per usual, I'm doing this in a reactive way, instead of a proactive way. In sort of a panic, so to speak. Posting goes something like this.

What's the letter for today? What can I write? My mind starts running through different words beginning with that letter. I even use a speller/divider book that was my mother's to read lists of words that begin with the letter. I write down a few words that might have some possibilities. However, my mind is usually blank as I stare at the list of words, so if anyone is around, I offer to let them be a guest blogger for the day. I've never gotten anyone to take me up on that offer, but they do offer suggestions for a relevant blog post. I get some interesting ideas from that, but most of them would take more time to develop than I have.

Along about this point, I realize how tired I am and want nothing more than to go do something else. And I usually do. I'd like to say that I then go and accomplish some of the other more important every day things that need to be done, but sometimes I just go watch TV and pet the cats.

I finally decide on something to write about and start doing research. I search the internet for information like for idioms that begin with I.  I search my blog for posts that may have related to the topic in the past and think about how much of the old material I should repeat. I, also, think about a personal experience to add to the topic where I have to find the balance of being meaningful, but not revealing too much information about myself or my family for privacy reasons.

And then I finally start writing. Sometimes it flows, and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes, I will write the post in one sitting and but usually I don't. If I don't, it's commonly because I don't have the mental energy to write a cohesive post. That's when I walk away again.

Eventually, I start writing and complete my text. Then it's time to find some pictures. Occasionally, I can take one right then and insert it into the post or I can use one from the past. At times this is from my blog and at other times it is from the thousands of picture files on the computer.

Then, after some proofreading, I hit publish! And that's that. Except for when I keep finding mistakes during my proofreading until I eventually give up or when Blogger gets persnickety and the spacing is way off. And that usually takes a long, aggravating time to correct.

I'm guessing that you never knew that my simple little posts were so laborious for me to write. Remind me again why I do this A-Z challenge every year? :)

Blog files, Part 1

 I used to keep a folder of ideas that I might blog about. I last looked at it a few years ago, but it resurfaced as we were cleaning out our files. I found it interesting to see what I thought I might write about. You may or may not be interested, but here are some of the things I saved in case you are. :)

--Notes about differences in hot dog preferences in West Virginia. This came after visiting Hillybilly Hot Dogs in Lesage, WV. I learned a line running through West Virginia separates those who prefer slaw on their dogs and those who like chili. The details are more complex than that, and maybe I'll write about them someday.

--An article on George Orwells Six rules for choosing the right word. This was something from my mother, a writer in her later years. I have all but given up on proper writing because so many rules seem to be changing. As you have noticed, I have chosen a more conversational style than a more formal one. 

--Notes for the A-Z Challenge, 2018. In case you're not familiar with it, the A-Z Challenge is an annual challenge during April to post daily (no Sundays) for a different letter of the alphabet. I chose not to do it this year, but I always have mixed feelings. Coming up with a different post daily can be arduous, and I tire quickly of it. However, I have written some of my most interesting posts during these Aprils. Something about necessity is the mother of invention...

--Also, from 2018, an article about doing a podcast when I was toying with the idea of doing one. I'm still interested, but it would be hard to compete with the copious amounts of them available these days. In addition, I have no equipment to work with for any kind of decent sound quality. However, who knows? When I retire, maybe I'll look into it.

--An article from Mental Floss about why bird poop is white. I included some of this information in this post in 2018; B is for Bird.

--A letter to my mother telling her she had won a spot on a local TV game show. I think she won a TV, among other things. I was always fascinated with this story, but she didn't talk about it much. I still may do something on this.

--A copy of two utility bills from the 1940s that we found in my family's home just hours after one of the residents at my mother's nursing home told me that her uncle used to live in our house. The bills were in her uncle's name. It was one of several connections I made at the nursing home while visiting my mother. I wrote about it here.

--Playbills for Sweeney Todd, Fickle, Godspell, and The Magic Play. I never got around to writing about any outings to see these shows, but I did write about seeing Dial M for Murder. 

Tune in next time to see what else I pull out of the folder.

A is for April

 April is here, and time for Wally's birthday, Easter, Earth Day, and the A-Z Blogging Challenge, when I will attempt to publish a post every day in April except for Sundays. This conveniently comes out to 26 days-one for every letter of the alphabet.

I first participated in this challenge in 2015 and have continued every year except for 2017 and 2020. In 2017, I was involved with my elderly mother's care, and, well, we all know April 2020 was when COVID began terrorizing the world. Both years were stressful times, and I don't know if I even thought about the A-Z challenge. But the other years, I have usually made a last-minute decision, like this year, to participate. If you read here often, you know that I am not a prolific blogger, and halfway through April, I suffer from blogging fatigue big time during the challenge. Last year, I thought I might do better with a theme, so I chose fruits and vegetables. However, I still had problems coming up with content, even with a theme. But I like to finish things, so I have always battled through to the end. And the interesting thing is that some of my favorite posts were written during these challenges.

So here it goes. Join me if you like.

E is for Easter Candy

 

April marks the 15th anniversary of my blog, so I will be sharing previous posts this month for the A-Z Challenge, drawn from the over 2,000 I have written. 

When I first planned this post, I thought it would be for Saturday, the day before Easter. But I was mixed up. However, I think it's still okay to post today, the day after Easter, as the main topic is the jelly beans. Originally, I did this post in 2019 for "J" during the A-Z Challenge, but I've adapted it for "E".

At the end, there will be an Extra section about something we saw yesterday.

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Jelly Beans

The techniques for making jelly beans have been around for hundreds of years, but when they were first made is uncertain. One thing people seem to agree on is that the first time they were mentioned in writing in the US was in 1861 by William Schrafft, a candy maker, who encouraged people to send jelly beans to the troops. In 1905, they were selling for 9 cents/pound in Chicago.

Did you know that jelly beans weren't associated with Easter until the 1930's when someone decided they looked like eggs, as well as beans? Before that, they were considered a Christmas candy, and even today, after Easter, Christmas is the next most popular time for jelly bean consumption. That is a fact that is broadening my horizons because I have never associated jelly beans with Christmas. However, a quick Google search showed that there are plenty of people out there who are happy to sell you red and green jelly beans, so there must be something to it.

And speaking of jelly beans looking like eggs, when I think of jelly beans, I always think of eggs. Never as beans, which now seems curious since they are called jelly beans. However, when I mentioned the Christmas and Easter facts about the candies to Ward, he said he guessed that they could look like eggs, but he always thinks of them as beans, because after all, they are called beans. And after all of these years of marriage, who knew we had such differing ideas about jelly beans? :)

One of my thoughts for this post was that maybe I could make some homemade jelly beans and share my experience. I had no idea how to make them, but since it's the day of Google and YouTube, I thought there would be some easy instructions to find. And I was right. There were several recipes involving gelatin, sugar, candy thermometers, and lots of time for drying. (Here's my favorite.) It would have been an interesting experiment, but I should have thought of it before last night.

I had a few more things to share on the subject, like Jelly Bellies were the first jelly beans to add the flavor to the inside instead of just in the coating, but I think this post has reached its natural conclusion. I'm hungry now, and I don't think anything will satisfy me except jelly beans. And I may not even wait until they are marked down after Easter to buy some.

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E is also for Extra Easter Candy.

A neighboring town features a Peeps show every year as a fundraiser for the Arts Council. Yes, I mean those kinds of Peeps--those marshmallowy little chicks and bunnies that make a grand appearance every Easter. This year, we got to see the show for the first time. There were 196 entries of all kinds of imaginative things done with Peeps or a Peeps theme. They were made by kids, adults, charities, nursing homes, artists, and anyone who had an inclination. Below are a few pictures from our visit to the Peep show.

Until next time..

Catch Up with This and That

The irises are in bloom now.

 Well, I did it! I made it to the end of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge without hating the whole thing. I have done the A-Z challenge seven times over the last eleven years and have found it a struggle to post six days a week, as required. Actually, nothing is required. It's not like I won't eat or something if I miss a day, but I am stubborn and like to finish what I start. 

The next obvious question is: why do I keep doing the challenge if it stresses me out so much?  Because with the desperation of coming up with six posts a week comes some of my more creative postings. Much of the time, I don't feel like I have anything to talk about, and the A-Z forces me to think outside the box of my routine life. 

This year, I revisited posts from the past. That made the task much easier, and it also made things interesting for me as I read through past posts. Thanks to all of you who read along with me.

Now, it's back to the everyday, and I'm drawing blanks again. Also, it seems that I didn't take many pictures in April to jog my memory, but here are a few.

Last weekend, we went to West Virginia for a memorial service for my cousin. We also visited three different cemeteries where my parents and grandparents are buried. In one of the cemeteries, we were trying to locate the unmarked grave of my found-grandfather. (It's a long DNA story.)
Also, at this cemetery was this Lewis family marker. They were early settlers of the Northwest Territory, and it was interesting to see something tangible that I had only read about in history books. 

Ward continues to work on puzzles. This one, called Literary Dogs and was quite interesting with its whimsy pieces. (Enlarge the picture if you want to see the details.) As it turns out, the puzzle was based on a 40-foot mural in a library that was only about an hour from us.

So we had to go visit it. It was hard to get a picture because it was so long, but it was a really fun mural.

And speaking of Ward, he had a birthday yesterday.
 Note: He is not quite 100 years old yet. 😀

This bluebird has been flying into our living room window many times a day. He then goes to the gutter to keep watch. Apparently, he is trying to defend his territory from his reflection. Some sources this could go on for weeks. 

We recently visited the Brighton Dam Azalea Garden. We try to go each spring when the 22,000 azaleas are in bloom. However, we kept up our trend of being about a week late for peak blooms, but it was still pretty. It is a popular place for photo shoots, and we saw several. If you look closely, you can see one here.

And true to form, Ward was just as interested in the structure of the dam as he was in the flowers.

That's all I've got for now.

Until next time...

U is for Use it Up

 

April marks the 15th anniversary of my blog, so during the A-Z blogging challenge, I will be sharing previous posts from over 2,100 I have written.

I did the post below for the 2022 A-Z Challenge. I had forgotten the details of it, so maybe you have, too. Here it is.

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This is a cross-stitch that I did several years ago. I selected it because I liked the saying and the flower detail around the edges. Recently, I began to wonder about the origin of the saying. After a bit of Googling, Barry Popik, who studies the origins of words, enlightened me.

The saying is thought to be a New England proverb seen in print as early as 1933. Earlier versions of the saying were “Eat it up, wear it out, make it do,” and it was widely used during the Great Depression. However, the War Advertising Council modified it and used the saying during World War II to promote the conservation of resources to help the war effort. During this campaign, the wording was changed to "Use it up, wear it out, Make it do, Do without." 

It has been used since then by frugal and environmentally-minded people everywhere. Do you ever quote this saying?

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Until next time...

X is for Xeriscape

 

April marks the 15th anniversary of my blog, so during the A-Z blogging challenge, I will be sharing previous posts from over 2,100 I have written.

I didn't have much to choose from for the letter X from previous years. Here's one on xeriscaping that I did for the letter X during the A-Z Challenge in April 2021. Just in case you're not familiar with the term, xeriscaping is a gardening method that conserves water.

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X is for Xeriscape Vegetable Gardening

Fig trees like dry feet, so they would be good for xericaping.
(I know. Figs are a fruit, not a vegetable.)

 If someone had asked me if xeriscaping was compatible with vegetable gardening, I would have said no, at least not for the vegetables I'm familiar with. I would have been wrong. There are some vegetables that will do okay without lots of water. With a bit of poking around, I found information that will be useful to me while gardening here, even though, on paper, we have adequate rainfall. The problem is it's all an average, and we usually have a long dry spell at some point in the summer. Here are a few tips I learned about growing vegetables without much water.

Miss Lander's oregano

--There are many herbs that do well in dry conditions. Oregano, thyme, rosemary, marjoram, and lavender are some of them. Currently, I am not growing any herbs, but I have had good luck with oregano, rosemary, and lavender in the past. They thrived in the "plant and forget" environment I provided for them.

--Plant vegetables that mature quickly, so they will be ready before the long dry part of summer arrives. Good ones for this are radishes, broccoli, cauliflower, leaf lettuce, and beets. I have all of these growing now. I got them in earlier than last year, so maybe I will have a better yield before the warmer, drier weather sets in.

Miss Lander's sweet potatoes

--Okra, sweet potatoes, and muskmelon do well in drought. I won't be growing any of these since they're not my favorite.

 --Raised beds and/or well-tilled soil allow roots to grow deeper, so the plant will be less affected by no rain. We put in raised beds last year and tilled the soil below them before we filled them. The soil in them is a big improvement over the native rocky soil.

 --Mulching is a good way to retain moisture. We mostly use straw for this, and we have some leftover from last year.

 --Legumes do not need as much water as many vegetables. We're growing peas now, but not sure we will have room for any of the warmer weather ones. 

--Install a rain barrel to collect water to use later. Ward installed a rain barrel last year for my birthday. It has been very handy this spring for watering the new plants.

So how about that? I am already doing some of the things recommended for xeriscape gardening. I was just doing them to make things easier.

How much rainfall do you have where you live? What do you do about watering plants?

Sources:

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/special/xeriscape/integrating-vegetables-and-herbs-into-the-xeriscape-garden.htm

https://www.rainharvest.com/blog/?p=474

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping#:~:text=Xeriscaping%20is%20the%20process%20of,eliminates%20the%20need%20for%20irrigation.&text=In%20some%20areas%2C%20terms%20such,smart%20scaping%20are%20used%20instead.

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Until next time...

N is for Nail Polish

 

April marks the 15th anniversary of my blog, so during the A-Z blogging challenge, I will be sharing previous posts from over 2,100 I have written.

Apparently, in May 2016, I started a series about body parts beginning with toes. Next, I moved onto fingers. I don't remember doing these posts, but it looks like I was having fun with them. Perhaps after the A-Z Challenge is over, I'll pick it up again. Here's the one about fingers that features an interesting discussion of nail polish.

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Nail Polish and other interesting bits of info about fingers.

A few weeks ago, I did a couple of posts about toes--specifically, pedicures. Well, now it's time to give fingers some equal time.

I read something recently about fingers that I found very interesting. It concerned the prune-like fingers you get when you've had your hands in water for a long time. Apparently, if you have nerve damage to your fingers, the skin on them won't wrinkle when it gets overly wet. This knowledge has been around at least since 1936, when a journal article was published about a case involving a young man who had the nerves to have some of his fingers cut but not others. And you guessed it, the ones without nerve connections didn't wrinkle when wet, but the others did.

So how does the pruning effect happen, anyway? Well, I'm not sure that I understand it all, but it is something like this. We have sweat glands in our fingers. Not only does water come out of those, but it also goes in. When extra water is absorbed, they expand. The nerves sense this and tell the small arteries in the fingers to contract, which results in wrinkles.

Now, I found the above bit of information really interesting. However, I find the next bit of information about fingers just strange. In Hong Kong, they have nail polish that tastes like KFC chicken. There are two flavors--regular and hot and spicy. While the idea of licking my fingertips all day is gross to me, I have to admit that to have nail polish that tastes like fried chicken and is "finger lickin' good" is a brilliant marketing scheme.

Apparently, Hong Kong doesn't have the market on edible nail polish. There is a company based in California that sells edible nail polish for kids. It's called Kid Licks and was founded on the basis that kids put everything in their mouths anyway, so they might as well have some fun and paint their nails. They have three colors: Beet Red, Sour Carrot Orange, and Barley Grass Green. They are made from organic, non-GMO ingredients and can be removed with water. In fact, if your kid puts their hands in their mouth a lot, they won't last very long. This product just seems silly to me, but I, myself, rarely have a manicure, so I'm not sure how to judge.

What do you think about this world of finger news?

Stay tuned for the next in the series of strange (to me) body things, when we move on to faces.

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Until next time...

J is for Japan

 

April marks the 15th anniversary of my blog, so during the A-Z blogging challenge, I will be sharing previous posts from over 2,000 I have written.

Today's selection is a revisit to my J post for the 2016 A-Z Challenge. It features a story from our trip to Japan in the 1980s. I record most of our trips on my blog, and that has come in handy when I want to remember something about one of them. If others find them interesting, too, that's an added bonus.

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J is for Japan

and Just doing the best I could.

Himeji, famous for its castle, is where we
had our spaghetti dinner.

Several years ago, Miss Landers was living in Japan, and Ward and I went to visit her. Before our trip, she sent us literature* on almost every subject that would pertain to our visit. From broad subjects like religions to practical ones on how to ride the trains and use chopsticks. We studied them all and practiced what we needed.

We finally got to put all of our new knowledge to use when we arrived in Japan.  Miss Landers was a great tour guide. She took us to tourist places in cities as well as personal homes in villages. She was well integrated into the Japanese culture and gave us experiences of what the country was really like.

A few days into the trip, Ward and I decided that we were confident enough to strike out on our own. We wandered the streets of the small town we were in, looking for a place to eat. I was hoping to find something that catered to tourists, where I might have a chance to eat something other than fish and rice, because fish is not my favorite food. Luckily, it was common to have a picture menu posted in the window of a restaurant. When I saw a picture of spaghetti on one of the menus, I decided that this was the place.

I ordered spaghetti and was relieved to see it was pretty traditional — tomato sauce with noodles. I immediately dove in, showing my best chopstick skills, which I had honed by practicing for months. In fact, I was kind of proud of how I was handling the long noodles. Well, pride goeth before a fall, they say. And this time they were right.

One of many pages of chopstick
instructions I practiced.

At one point during the meal, I looked around, and the entire staff of the restaurant was standing behind me and smiling. When they saw me looking, they quickly handed me a fork. Apparently, I was not looking like a chopstick pro, I thought I was. Instead, I was the entertainment for the evening. Oh, well.

We had a few more adventures on our trip that I'll tell you about another time. But now it's time to think about the letter K.

*This trip was before you could go on the Internet and find everything you needed.

V is for Velleity

 

April marks the 15th anniversary of my blog, so during the A-Z blogging challenge, I will be sharing previous posts from over 2,100 I have written.

Here is another repost from an A-Z Challenge in 2015. I could add a lot more to the list if I were writing this today. 😀

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V is for Velleity

You know how they say if you are really going to learn a new word, you need to use it. Well, a couple of years ago, I learned velleity, a new-to-me word that I thought was great. I could see using it on a daily basis. However, that never seemed to happen after the first week, and I forgot it until recently. So I'm going to take a stab at it again.
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Velleity 

Velleity---a noun that means to have a wish or desire to do something, but you are not interested in it enough to act on it.

--My desire to revamp the look of my blog was more of a velleity than a real plan.

--Velleity is what keeps me from cleaning up the pile on the bed in the guest room.

Can you think of a way you could use velleity in a sentence?

But wait, there's more.

Here's how you say velleity.
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Until next time...