I’ve been out of contact for quite a while due to health issues. Finally getting my mojo back! If you’re getting towards 60 like I am, you know what I mean by loosing track of time!

To catch you up on what’s been going on since last summer — well, I had a knee replacement in August that didn’t go well. So I spent five days in the hospital before spending 10 days in a rehab place then home to finish my rehab on my own. It’s been a long road due to falling right after I got released from rehab and then again a few weeks ago at Zion’s National Park when I missed stepping down from the curb because I was taking pictures with my cell phone. Note: do not ever walk while taking photos! LOL!

Anyway, I was getting my knee better but I’ve been plagued with stomach aches for months. Nothing seemed to work  until the nurse practitioner I see, suggested a CT of my abdomen and found that my umbilical hernia was now an inny and attaching itself to my stomach wall which is why I was having so much pain. So into emergency surgery to fix that. I’m 11 days out and feeling so much better. Glad I was such a complainer too because apparently, I could have bled out and they would have found me dead. I wouldn’t have known that I was bleeding internally either until it was too late to help me. So note to anyone who has belly button hernias – don’t let them get bad, get them fixed!

Today I woke up to snow on the ground. Yes, it’s April and we are still getting snow storms here in Utah. However, the sun is out, it’s melting and the sky is clear and I believe it’s going to be a beautiful day! Time to get back to working on my Splendid Sampler quilt and my Yoyoville quilt and my Nauvoo Temple quilt and my Solstice quilt. Can’t tell I’m a bit behind now can you!

In the meantime between surgeries, I got back into my photography. I love love to take pictures of anything that moves me, be it a bird, a cat, a dog, a person or some weird object out in a field someplace. So my dear husband worked some overtime so that we could afford a really nice camera and lens kit. So I’ve been driving around, taking bird pictures. I leave you with a photo of my latest victim…a wood duck!