Between rounds of snow, plunging temperatures, and new soups to sample, the past week has been both relatively quiet and productive at the same time.  There have been several beautiful sunrises and sunsets . . . I've also had the usual amount of things break or malfunction while Scott is on the other side of the world . . . Besides the printer and my older laptop in the office needing a sledgehammer (!), the main lights in the family room downstairs died and needed to be replaced.  Thank goodness for my friends, Stephen and his father Don Blatter, who know their way around electrical work. Don is a retired master electrician, and his son has been taught well. Together, they not only replaced the old light fixtures (that had LED lights + transformers instead of actual light bulbs), but they also permanently changed an odd 3-way light switch that never made much sense in the 18 years that we've lived here. I attended the temple on Thursday, which could not have come at a better ...