I took my first walk down this driveway in regular shoes since August.  Two hundred feet down and back and the results was a slight headache.  I wanted to do this before the snow hit tonight.  After that happens I will be back to limited walking and then it is baby steps to keep my balance.  It is funny how important it is to get that first shower after a cast comes off.  Or that first long walk when it is clear enough to get around.  I certainly have learned a lot about mobility this last year.  I’m not quite over the healing yet but it is a far cry from Thanksgiving a year ago.  Two ankles have been corrected I hope for a long time to come. 

I have just finished Beedle The Bard by J. K, Rowling. I had bought three copies so the grand daughters could have one too.  I am now in the middle of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book . Les had a chapter of it on SEB and after listening to it I had to have it so I bought two copies so Les has one too.  Both are a light fantasy to escape with.  Next I’ll go back to a Deaver novel I started quite a while before Christmas.  Then there are several others, purchased over the last few years that just got shoved away when a craft had to be done.  I even have Stephen King’s new one, a gift from Mike and Dar to read. 

But I must confess the the fingers are itching to work on the tiny X’s again and my book on Punch Needle( also from Mike and Dar last year) hasn’t been tried out yet.  But at least I have a whole year now to complete some of these things I had bought for Christmas gifts!!!

The only thing that bothers me is that with all these projects to do I don’t dare order anything else ( even if it is on sale) until I make a dent in the stash I have!

Tomorrow is my eldest son Wes’ birthday.  Sad as it seems, I not sure, but I believe he is going to be 47.  I have trouble with this because that means I’m old as dirt!!!  As in the past few New Years Eves we will not be there to celebrate with him.  That is the bad part about getting old, traveling even a short distance in winter, and a birthday on a holiday.  But we wish him a very Happy Birthday along with a Happy New Years Eve