My year in books according to Goodreads  

 

Oh WOW!  I would give this more than five stars if I could.  I just kept thinking is he, and if he is how? and if not then who?  I have read all of Lynette Eason's titles to date, and this one has to top them all. 

This has to be one of the best books I have read this year.  It deserved more than five stars in my opinion.   Waiting until the next one is going to be really, really hard.

 I mentioned that only a few select pieces came to the facility with us.  These are some.  O Canada, Celtic Banner, Purple Perfection,  Sailing into the Dime,  a Round Robin, stitched by my friends in Edmonton, the Ultimate Debate, Priceless.   Priceless has names stitched across the top and bottom, those with whom I stitched at home, and with whom I stitched in Vegas in 2006.  

I am currently working on another little freebie Do What You Love.  It is slow going, I have not touched it since November 9th, but I hope to soon.  Most days my shoulders hurt too much to even try.  

What it will eventually look like, and currently.  

I might post a few more of what we brought with us next time, which hopefully will not be as long.  

 And four years again.  For a while Norton kept saying this was a dangerous website; but I finally managed to get that resolved.  

There have been changes since I last wrote here.  I did manage to finish a few projects, but last winter wound up with a rotator cuff tear in the shoulder that was replaced.  So, not just bone-on-bone in the right one, now the tear in the left.  I cannot reach to stitch except for small projects held close to my body.  

I had Garden Prelude framed; my daughter has it now.  Many of my framed pieces are now in others' homes; we could not bring them all to a senior suite.  Only a few select ones came with us.  

In 2021 I finally finished the Starburst Flag, that I started in 2016.  I also did What Remains, an exclusive from Traditional Stitches, that a friend finished into a pillow for me.  

In 1922 I did an Esther Blackwood sampler as a stitch-a-long through Traditional Stitches.  

My big project in 2023 was Dreaming of Poppies, started in February and finished at the end of October.  Then I tore the rotator cuff, so have managed just one small finish this year, a freebie that I downloaded.  I had told my ortho doctor that I could no longer stitch and he encouraged me to at least try something small.  

Also last year, we sold our home and moved into a seniors' lodge, with home care support.  My husband has dementia; this is a memory care facility.  I need help with showering due to my shoulder problems and they do our laundry and dispense meds as well.  https://communities.silvera.ca/calgary/beaverdam/

I spend most of my time reading - 162 books so far this year according to Goodreads - working on genealogy, and, until last week watching Blue Jays baseball.  Now there will be CFL football, hockey and curling until baseball begins again.  And Jeopardy.  

I am also part of a new book launch for Terminal Danger by Jerusha Agen.  It is the fifth and last in the Guardians Unleashed series, a clean romantic suspense, which will be available October 24th.  

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211072817-terminal-danger

I will try to post more often now that I have resolved the dangerous website problem, although I was informed that it was just a specific Norton checkbox so others would not have seen it.