as a new Blogger I was quite surprised that today my blog is off line - especially as I spent about 5 hours yesterday putting the last of it on line. Never fear - I will be back. It is just Google being super cautious and I had to verify my existence. I think their automated spam machine might be too senstivie - or maybe just the fact that I posted so much in one day. So - any new bloggers - maybe do it over a much longer time if you want to 'back-date' the blog.