There is a lot of catching up to do. Much has changed since I was last writing regularly. My wife is the author of ScrappyPam. She is into papercraft, not fiber. A while back, in an effort to merge our hobbies and provide material for her craft, I started making crocheted flowers. This effort has grown considerably. ScrappyPam has opened an Etsy shop for her paper craft. My crocheted flowers are now offered for sale in that shop. Please stop by and take a look.

I have gotten more serious about my birding. If I ever get any good pictures of what I see, I’ll post them. I keep track of my birds on eBird. What I like about eBird is the data gets used for academic research and conservation. There are plenty of bird sites and birding software out there, and being a database professional, I could just write my own. However, I like eBird and if my hobby (obsession?) has some value to science, I’m happy to contribute. More on birds in a future post. If any of you are also birders, I encourage you to use eBird as well.

I have some new academic/intellectual interest – actually, they’re not new, they’ve just taken the opportunity to resurface. I want to add those topics to my blog and write about those, but not today. Today, I’m just checking back in and hey!, I made a post.