HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE! Spring has sprung here. Practically overnight the weather has moderated. Days are 75-80 (I think) and no need to layer up at all inside the house, day or night. And also some signs of a few household "pets" as well...a fly here, miller there. Hills are green, huge amounts of snow on mountains from the two weeks of rainy weather we had. I think it will be not very long until I'll gripe about how hot it is!

For those of you interested in visiting Morocco, if you want want to be fairly comfy with weather, then best come betweeen Nov. 1 and June 1. That is, if you want to get around ALL of Morocco and stay in some non-touristy places. There are real extremes of temperature, summer and winter, and of course that varies from year to year, as it does everywhere plus it varies widely on what part of the country you visit. But those months would be playing it on the safe side. And after this summer, I will have time to take a day here or there to spend with visitors. So let me know if you are considering coming here. I'd love it!

From "The Alchemist"..."There was a language in the world that everyone understood. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired. You must always know what you want. When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it."