Goodness me!  Have I really neglected my blog for a whole month?  Wow!  That must be a record.  Well, here I am in the usual one piece. ...

This post is LONG  overdue and is dedicated to Jules of Adventures in Thread who requested it quite some time ago when I mentioned that I...

Isn't 'gauge' an oddly spelled word?  (Aren't many English words??)  I always want to write 'guage' instead. Anywa...