[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mac...*HUGS*...how’s your fence coming along? Sons and friends making progress?

[ConorMacNessa]

Substantial progress on the fence today! We have most of the back line up - tomorrow we should finish that, finish the gap on the South side between our neighbor's fence and ours - about 4 feet, and get the gate up. That will secure the rear - we can pretty much do the north line when we want.

Sorry I've been so absent lately - between work, Choir and Christmas preparation, I'm way behind the power curve.

I think the most recent infection is finally behind me - breathing freely and feeling better.

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

This is the Arabic character "nun" – the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes."