Is this what our relationship has come to? That you have forgotten our four-year blogiversary!!!!! How could you? How could you?

Ah, nuts to you, anyway. To celebrate this momentous occasion (lots of good presents are still available; custom dictates that the more belated, the bigger they have to be), Rob and I went to my family’s vacation home in Western Maryland. Three days of fabulous relaxation. I read a book. I won five out of six games of Scrabble. I observed wildlife.

Here is a partial list:

1. Chipmunk
2. Deer
3. Opossum
4. Bunny
5. Cat
6. Skinny owl or fat hawk
7. Vince Vaughn in The Breakup

Noah’s Ark is still being rebuilt, by the way.* They are going to have to move faster because according to An Inconvenient Truth, which I saw last night and can’t recommend highly enough, Western Maryland may soon be underwater, and hey, those polar bears need help NOW.

So I’ve been writing here for four years. Not much lately, obviously, which has become a charming new sense of guilt in my life. But I’m not quite ready to give it up yet. I’ll go for five and aim for an entry a week.

After that, you're on your own.

* If you follow that link, it says it was written by me, but it was really written by Faustus.