It’s been quite a while since I wrote anything. My life has been so busy with my volunteer work for Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Price Utah and with our house and my health. Yup, life has been one thing after another. Isn’t that how it is for everyone? I don’t know anyone who hasn’t faced something during this past year or so. The Covid 19 pandemic has really thrown a wrench into the plans of everyone. Not being able to travel outside our states in some places and to any country due to lockdowns. Wearing a mask that makes it impossible to tell if the person is smiling or not has really been a hard one for our children and seniors. Now that there are vaccines available, people are slowly getting back to normal.

I have been recovering from foot surgeries. Finally wearing shoes again. Now it’s neck pain and back pain injections to help me have a better quality of life. I can finally walk around the block. Something that most people take for granted has been out of reach for me for years. I am so thankful for medical advances that made it possible for me to walk again. Life is to be lived, not watched passing you by.

One thing that has not changed is my quilting. I have been working on several Lori Holt patterns, doing challenges online with a group of quilters from around the world and following Moda as they do the Sewcialities quiltalong which is a weekly post and pattern. I finished the Bonnie Hunter Mystery Grassy Creek. It’s on my pile of quilt tops waiting to be quilted. One of the most time consuming projects I’ve ever done! I’m also working on a project that I purchased back in 2004 when Don was deployed to Iraq with our son, Mathew. I never got one block done then. Must have been too overwhelmed with the kids and life to get to it. Now I have 3 blocks done, 2 more to go! Then lots of applique for the sashings and borders. Don loves it and says I had better get it done and hung for people to see as they enter our home.

Don has been busy working on the basement. He’s almost done with the drywall part. Next up is mudding, painting and flooring. Then building shelves for my extensive fabric collection and floor to ceiling book shelves in the family room for our books that are about all that’s left in our storage unit. I have been starting seeds for preparation to plant in our garden. Flowers so far but today I hope to get another grow light and heat mat that will help me start the vegetables that will go out early. Life is never dull and if you are doing it right, never boring!

I hope I can add a couple pictures to this blog so you can see the wonderful birds that we have seen this past winter. Life has been so lovely here in Orangeville. We have beautiful scenery right outside our neighborhood. Deer walk through the streets and quail visit our yards all winter long. Song birds have been singing and making life in lockdown so enjoyable. I wish you all could live where I live or in a similar place. We don’t need big cities to enjoy life! Nature has it all!