This is so embrassing.  I have not posted in so long.  I have been trying to create time to create, sometimes it works.  This January I was away every weekend.  That left no time to play.  Then, once it looked like there was time for me, my family received horrible news.  My father in law is dying.  Mel and I detoured to see him on a Pony Club trip at the beginning of February.  He was in LA at a hotel while his wife recovered from surgery at the hospital.  He was not feeling great then.  He never felt great after that.  A lot of things went on, he ended up in a hospital in Vegas at the beginning of Lent.  A week later he was discharged to hospice care and the doctors gave him 48 hours to live.  Two weeks later, he is alert and still with us.  I keep thinking of Corey's attention to her father and it gives me strength.  Mel adores her Pepe.  We allowed her to skip school for the first week he was home, after the hospital.  I am convinced that she and her cousins were the reason that my beau pere came out of his coma and rejoined us.  I hope this special man stays with us for a few more weeks or months.