May 2011: Thanks for everything. Several hundred dollars of exotic woods are being shipped in. Plans are afoot. Cody shows fantastic promise as a spindle co-maker. Cherry dowels are enroute. New drill bits are coming. Even the barn is scheduled to be cleaned, and it's summer (at least here for Vermont, no more freezing and the flowers are blooming.) No promises are made. I'm really liking my new computer, it does allow me to work faster, and and am (very) slowly getting used to the fact the I skipped about 2 generations of software -- me, the former computer genius. We shall see what the summer brings.