Life at the neck rest factory has slowed a bit because my 5 month old grand daughter Maya and her entourage (my son Noah and daughter-in-law Jana) are visiting from Germany. It's really tough to spend time in my shop while they're around. Maya got her first solid food (pureed baked fresh pumpkin loving prepared by yours truly) and the event was duly recorded with about 2000 photographs and the entire family in attendance.

Then she proved she clearly looks better in my cycle skullcap than I do.

Something new I'm working on is a neck rest for someone with arthritis who needs lateral stability as well as fore and aft cushioning. I'm starting with an 8" PVC water pipe coupling,

will be cutting it in half length-wise and then across the diameter before hanging some brackets and lining it with latex. I'm hopeful this will work even better than we expect, and its given me some ideas for trying a different shape for the other neck rests as well.