Due to a lightning last Wednesday we have again lost access to our computer and all the data on it 
Press thumbs and we hopefully will know if it is rescue-able mid of next week. We have access to the email provider via another computer but can only read text messages from there and try to avoid writing back from that source as well.
Thanks for your patience again
Brigitte
Reconnected to the world. The data on our computer was rescue-able, the computer we are not so sure yet if it will keep stable now after repair as the power surge may have caused problems elsewhere on it. We had to change the mainboard (the second in three months). Anyway nothing lost on the data side but now (yet again) we are backlogged with answering the emails. I hope to keep this back to normal within the next couple of weeks. Thanks again for your patience.
Brigitte
P.S. Angela, I would go for cats especially the male ones can have great characters and are generally more mentally stable and sociable, certainly from the cats that I have had and still have and friends have