ok, so.....this morning in my thursday county i had a belated revelation....as the clinic space next door to mine emptied out of several women...and the nurse......and it occured to me that one of the ladies had an appointment for a pap smear...and the rest of the females were just along......gracious sakes.......this sort of thing is beyond me...but not beyond the nurse......who commented that i must not be familiar with appalachia......where everybody related goes everywhere with everyone else....because these folks trust only family, even if family is nothing but scoundrels......and so the woman with the appointment brought along her kin just in case.....in case of what i have no idea....but i was assured that pap smears had been done with more in the room that that.......i pondered this reality as i started silas houses fine novel clays quilt.....set in mythical crow county, ky.......maybe the perfect foil for evil iris and her mean endings.....though silas may turn out to have a similarly tragic bent.......who knows.......by the way....my keyboard will not do apostrophes...when the key for this symbol is struck, a new window opens as if to search whatever is typed next.....no idea why this has happened.......please, lord, make it stop .....