Last week some very good friends of Lyssa and I (Heron61 and Teaotter) stayed with us for a couple of days, and then we headed out to the Four Quarters Farm for the gather called Walking the Thresholds - camping for three days in the middle of the woods of Pennsylvania, completely off the grid, with good friends and extended family, eccentrics one and all, for company.

Sounds like fun... and it was, for the most part.

Teaotter went to stay with Laurelinde and family around the middle of last week, so there were only three of us who packed up …