Welcome aboard! Waving from a safe personal space near Seattle.
Although I was quilting the entire time, I recently took a break from my on-line swapping and forums just about as long as your quilting break. Anyway... it was about Y2K back then and when I came back I found this board.
It's a great place with some really wonderful talent and nice people, and always so nice to talk to people who understand quilting. My husband is very supportive but there is a lot of "blink blink" from him when I try to elicit a quilting response