Crawling out of a hole

I looked at the last date on my blog and cannot believe that a year has nearly passed by.

2010 is a year that I would like to forget completely.  A year that consisted of nearly losing my eldest son. I had a fall off a chair and hit my shoulder that caused excruiating pain for over 2 months.  I had it x-rayed and scanned but they could find nothing.   I still get pain a lot of the time when I do certain movements.  DH's wrist from his work injury nearly 2 years ago is still giving him so much pain.  He is now to have a second surgery on it in the New Year.  Then to top it all off my dear Dad was diagonised with an agressive cancer on his ear and last week they took off his ear.  He is feeling very self conscious about it.  I told him it was better to have a Dad without an ear than no Dad at all.

This is a really sweet kookaburra that was sitting on the balcony above us.  He wasn't fazed at all - just kept calm while we took lots of shots.

I have been doing a little bit more of stitching in the last 2 months.  I am changing how I rotate my projects to try and help me get some things finished.   I have been working on Cassandra © Nora Corbett.  I love the colours in this especially her dress. It has a lot of 1/2 stitches and can be quite tricky.  I am nearly at the 50 % mark.  The second half should go quite quickly as there is not much stitching.

Annette B