OH.MY.GOD, this is me apologizing profusely to Rob and Mel for unwillingly ignoring their comments on these two posts, respectively (and another person on this post)!

I am so very sorry, guys, but somehow your comments were categorized as spam and I was never notified they were submitted! It is only today that I saw them when I decided on a whim to take a look at the unmoderated spam comments and delete them. I don't know how that happened!

I approved your comments and they are now appearing on the blog, and I promise I will do better!