Father-Husband-Marketer-Geek

* A good question was posted on the Yahoo! Group yesterday - how do you prevent your cats from playing with your village ("playing" is a much more positive word than "destroying"!)? Other than encasing your display in glass, I am not sure. I related to this post as our youngest cat Reggie likes to roam our displays as if he is Godzilla, occasionally nibbling on a tree and once when he was hungry we think he bit Santa. * Speaking of Godzilla, I was wondering if Dept 56 or any other company built buildings for other countries? Are there Japanese villages? Norway villages? This too would be interesting to find out. * I'm very pleased with the reach of this blog as it's only a month or so old and we have 23 email subscribers (you can sign up to the right -------->) and are averaging about that much in visits to the blog each day from unique visitors. Even more impressive are the searches from Google that are coming in: "d56 survey" "department ...