Finally, I
feel like I have something to show again. It has been a long road and a lot has
happened. I noticed that Blogger has changed and I realized that I needed some
help. So this will be an update without pictures. Once we've got this figured out,
the pictures will follow.
My shoulder
is feeling much better thanks to a shot of cortisone and a lot of physiotherapy. I’m still not quite there, but I have been doing some appliqué again.
I realize that I will have to take it easier than before.
But as I
said, a lot has happened. The first few weeks of the year we were busy with
looking after grandma’s things. Even in a small room in a retirement home, you
can stash a lot!
At the end
of January/beginning of February, we went on a learning tour to Kenya and
Tanzania. We have been involved with the Canadian Food Grains Bank for quite a
few years and when our feed mill and the local Mennonite Central Committee
office organized this trip, I was ready to go. It took some work to get
Laurence interested, but now he is the one who wants to go back. We saw a lot
and experienced a lot. Anybody interested can find more about our trip at www.grainsofhopelearningtour.blogspot.com. I even met some quilters in
Nairobi -- more about that later.
And now to
the next big event! Any day now we hope to have our first grandchild: we have
been anxiously waiting for over a week now for a call from Shawn and Emily. Of course, with a baby comes a baby quilt! My friend Carol helped me accomplish that. Since Emily’s sister had a
little girl 3 weeks ago, I’m making a baby quilt for her as well, as we
speak. But at least now I’m able to do it all myself.
The weather
has been good. Most of the planting is done. The flower beds look great. I
filled up the holes here and there with new plants and now I hope that it all
will look as nice as I have envisioned.
This will be
it. We better try and get Blogger sorted out before I do more.
