Just a quick bit o’ blog business: I’ve decided to start moderating comments from first-time commenters. The number of “smart” spam comments I get per day is increasing and it’s really annoying me. I’ve been putting off doing this because the last time I changed this setting, something went haywire and I stopped getting comments emailed to me. I’m hoping and praying that the same thing doesn’t happen this time. As a little test, could you please leave a quick comment for me, just to see if I’m getting them emailed to me? You can just say “test” or “hello” or—ooh, I know! Tell me your favorite song lyric. Merci!

UPDATE: Comments seem to be getting emailed to me just fine. Thanks, everyone! I’m closing comments on this post now.

As you will probably be able to tell if you have looked at my Flickr lately, we’ve been keeping busy. And now, as you might infer from that photo of Annalie and Aurora above, we’re in Omaha for a visit and we’re still busy. I’m hoping I’ll have time to blog about some of the fun stuff keeping us busy very soon.

Someone asked me to email them a heads-up when 7 Days was happening again, and I cannot for the life of me remember who it was. Hey, whoever asked me to remind them: today is the first day of 7 Days!

(The above photo is not my Day 1 shot. That’ll come later today.)