It's been a long while since I blogged, it has been an eventful year to be sure. My sister Laura, cousin Leila, and nephew Hayward are headed back to Alabama after a lovely visit. She brought kittens all the way from Alabama to their forever home, they are so precious! We had an unplanned kitty event as well, my husband brought home a kitten from the streets of Grant's Pass here in Oregon. She is a Siamese mix I named Gi Gi with stunning blue eyes and a sweet disposition. Our new arrivals are both boys, one named Li Li and the other Mi Mi, and their sister Journey is here being part of our new little family, which also includes our nephew Robert and his kitties too. He will be starting college in 10 days, which is also exciting!
We have had some ups and downs, for sure this last few years, and this one in particular. My husband had heart surgery and is now really recovering from that. He now has a defibrillator/pacemaker which gives me a lot of comfort. Our daughter Bonnie was diagnosed with oral cancer and is alive thanks to Louisiana State University which saved her life. She had extensive surgery and 30 radiation treatments, and is now slowly recovering. She is still struggling to recover and is having some issues with blisters and swelling inside and out of her mouth and neck. They removed 60 lymph nodes which process fluids, and so now fluids build up in her neck, inside and out. her weight is an issue along with just simple acts of eating and drinking. Her sense of taste is sporadic but hopefully with time it will come back. She's struggling to gain weight because eating and drinking are difficult and can be terribly painful. I pray her health returns soon.
I have expanded my artistic endeavors this year to include painted glass eyes on glass cabochons, selling them to others and using them myself in my jewelry. Some are realistic and others are fantasy, my kaleidoscope eyes are fantasy, but oh so pretty!
What is really interesting is viewing them under the microscope, it blows my mind! I will be getting a camera to interface with my microscope. I have to tell you, getting my microscope rocked my world! I got it for looking at my gems, but it has come in handy in other surprising ways, like removing a splinter, a big help! I have a passion for tools, and this is a great tool. I have more to share, but for now I am posting this because I need to go to town, and I have already lost 2 posts I wrote, I am determined to post this without another glitch. Be Well and enjoy the day, it will never come again❤
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