In the category of you can’t make this stuff up, this is a greeting I got this morning.  Catherine said to me, “Phil Volker you are my favorite lobster!”  Well, I was wearing a lobster tie that I inherited from Catherine’s father’s collection.  Every well dressed dude ought to have some sort of crustacean themed necktie, don’t you think?

I was celebrating actually and wearing a tie to Mass.  I won a bid on some cabinets that will carry me through a month of the rainy winter.  Now that I’ve got the woodstove in the shop things will be cozy on top of that.  So yea, lobster ties all around!

And I am feeling better, not great but I’m in second gear anyway.  That’s a celebration there.  Man, things were pretty weird there for a while.  Thanks for your prayers out there.

It is a beautiful day here and our walk is in a few hours so stop by.  OK, things are looking up here at Raven Ranch.  We’ve achieved some wiggle room.  Love, Felipe.