Thank you all for your kind welcomes! It is very touching. I live in Southern Illinois and have 4 hives of bees and am hoping to get that number up to 20+ next year. I have been quilting for a couple of decades and have many Phd's (projects half done) and belong to 2 guilds and have a regular sew in day with a couple of friends so we can help each other work out the kinks on current projects (and cut for a friend who has horrible arthritis and cannot do the tiresome chore of standing and handling the cutter).