January 30, 2021

     Having spent the past four months working through five different health issues, two hospitalizations, and four or five different antibiotics, I have been derelict in my blogging duties.  I also have been away from my sewing and quilting machines that entire time.  Two days ago, I laid out two equal-sized pieces of  fleece with which I intend to start sewing another double blanket, child-size, for South Dakota,.  

    It's time to move back into life and look into the future.  I'm hoping to receive my first covid-19 vaccination in a few weeks and the second not long after that.  Then comes the 'two week' waiting period after which I will relax a bit from the worry about becoming seriously ill with covid-19.  I've had enough of 'serious' illness for now.  I'm ready for creative activities.  

   The view photo above was taken six and a half years ago, when I took my then-eleven year old grandson to Victoria, BC to view the Viking exhibition at a large museum there.  We enjoyed a circle-island bus tour, and this view looked across  the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Vancouver Island to Washington state's Olympic mountains.  It was a 'back to the future' moment.  I love remembering being drawn into the promise of the return journey to come, and years to enjoy other road-trips together with him.

   Covid-19 has kept me almost totally in self-isolation since this past March.  Outside of the unknown  of the disease itself and how it might affect a person of my age, I have enjoyed the time removed from public view.  I have not enjoyed the separation from family and friends.  Hopefully, that will be gone in the not too distant future.