Her Majesty's health bulletin: HM is still alive, thanks be to God. I wasn't sure I'd see her again if I had gone to New York. She's enjoying her soup, but less than a can a day, and occasional solid food. First thing on payday I'm buying a blender and making her steak-and-egg smoothies. She has already lost a good deal of the weight she had just regained. Sigh... But she's still happy to go out in the yard on warm days, so hopefully, if last year was any indication, this is our last cold spell and now we're gonna see some warming.

That is all.