Welcome Thailand and Malaysia - and note on Hurricane Sandy

Welcome to Malaysia and Thailand this week - thanks for giving us a look at and here's hoping that you return again.  Himself!


- here in Maryland we're lucky that we were to the south of the eye of Hurricane Sandy that came ashore in New Jersey.  Sandy was being touted as the largest storm to ever plague the U.S.   Even though the eye of the storm literally passed over our head in the night, we were saved from the horrendous tidal surges that devastated New Jersey and New York and the accompanying heavy winds and rain of the counter-clockwise movement of the storm.  Most, though not all, homes in our area - north eastern part of Maryland - are powered up once again today and tonight (but sorry to say not here at Black Hills - no electricity or water, but cars are gassed up if needed, very little to none structural damage to house and property and the knowledge that we are on the waiting list for restoration of power).