Hello dear readers. I’ve just returned from an Alaskan cruise and a few days in Seattle and Vancouver. We had a great trip and I plan to tell you all about it in the coming days. I took lots of pics and will be sharing details about where we went, what we did, what I bought (always important), and what we ate. It’s good to be home, even though I am faced with mounds of work, mail, email and voicemail to dig through. Thanks to all of you who kept reading and commenting in my absence. I cooked like a lunatic before we left in order to have enough posts to get you through, but I also want to say thanks to my wonderful guest bloggers who filled in for me the last few days.