Hello again and Thank You Fellow FA Artists, Writers, Photographers, Musicians, Crafters, Fursuiters and other highly creative people.

Sorry for dropping out of sight these past couple of months, but it took quite a while for the injuries in my Right Shoulder to heal, and only in these past couple of weeks have I been able to draw and type without pain in my upper arm or the elbow joint locking up. I thank you all for your well wishes and words of encouragement, plus I appreciated the ways at how those of you who know how to work the Social Media kept me informed and up to date with what has been going on in the Fandom in my absence. I'm pleased to say that both my scraped knees and injuries to my ankles have healed, and the massive bruising that ran from the top of my Right Bicep, all the way down to the joint of my elbow, and somewhat resembled a map of Chile, have all cleared up.

So where were we? I made it through the Holidays in good order, and I found out that it was far more fun to give that it is to receive, and as a result, I have accumulated a few bagfuls of extra treats, small toys and goodies that I still have to mail out to friends and share with others. This has helped to extend my Holiday cheer, and in a way, helped make up for the time I lost during my recovery. As it is, I try to keep the "Glow" of the holidays in my heart all the year around, which helps me get through the darker days until Baseball Season and the warmer days of Spring roll around.

I'm not certain if I ever mentioned that I've been trying to develop a transparent modeling material that can be formed like clay, and will hold its shape and eventually be baked or hardened after it has been formed. Now I have seen crystal clear casting materials, and I know there are some methods which combine 3-D printing using transparent resins, But I'm looking for something that might work with Polyform clays or epoxy resin materials. I have had limited success experimenting with materials such as "Liquid Glass" but there are drawbacks to using that material which is classified as a "Putty" because it can only, at best hold its form for a matter of a few minutes.

This "Thinking Putty" is also kind of therapeutic for me because working the materials helps to give me something to keep my mind busy, and it also strengthens my fingers and keeps my hands nimble. As I was shopping the Holiday clearance aisle at a local drug store, I came across a cylinder of multicolored, transparent "Putties" that were in separate "Petri dishes" in the "Roy G. Biv" spectrum of colors. I had to carry my shopping in my backpack during the bus ride home, and the cylinder got tossed about a bit. much to my dismay, I discovered that the Purple, Blue and Orange containers had leaked a tiny bit each, inside the cylinder, which I was able to salvage from the inside of the main container, giving me a ball of mixed colors just about the size of a large marble. I played withe the multicolored blob a bit, but I noticed that the resulting color was a transparent orange with a twinge of purple very similar to what I have been imagining what the gel like "Protoflesh" of my mythical "Syl" characters are made of.

A Happy accident? Coincidence Maybe? But if anything, the experience has told me to keep on trying until I get things right, or at least close to the way I want them. My recent visit with the pharmacist has been encouraging too, because he told me there might be a drug that could help steady the tremors that have frustrated my drawing efforts through these past two years or so. I'll keep you folks posted on the results, of course.

"Peace."