I'm OK

Thanks to you who have check on me. I assure you I'm ok, just very sluggish these days. Fighting the pain has begun to take a toll on my desire to do anything, even more. To add to the misery, I took a fall yesterday, almost wiped out the Christmas tree, missed it be inches. I didn't break anything, but I'm pretty well "stove up" (as my grandma would say) this morning.

I have so much still to do to get ready for Christmas, and there's serious doubt in my mind as to whether I can do the first bit of it. But I press on.

My New Year's Resolution will be to do a better job keeping up with my blog. I think this was the same resolution as last New Year's. 

I haven't done any sewing in the last couple of weeks, and I will not have Sister Ramey's surprise done in time for Christmas. Maybe her birthday (which is in July).

I will end up the year having read somewhere around 70 books. And the one I finished last night promises to be the best of the lot. Blood to Rubies by Deborah Hufford is built around the struggles and defeat of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce after the U.S. government removed them from the ancestral lands in the Pacific Northwest. But there is a cast of characters of all genders and races. Be ready for sadness. The entire book is sad, and the ending is a two-box-of tissues tear-fest.

B&R - 1

Merry Christmas everyone. 

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On 12/21/2023, MARY LINES said ...

Sue. so sorry to hear you took a fall. At our age it is so easy to do. Everywhere I go I am assessing the terrain so to speak just to avoid that happening. I am very interested in the new book. I lived in Northeast Washington for many years and Chief Joseph's story is very familiar. Merry Christmas and hope you feel better.

On 12/21/2023, Mary said ...

I am glad to see that you are okay. I enjoy reading your blog.

Don't worry about the Christmas 'hoopla' -- just enjoy your family and your friends. That's the important stuff. :-)

On 12/22/2023, Barbara Anne said ...

Oh, sweetie, I hear you about lacking the oomph to do much, especially the baking and decorating that you susally do. Perhaps invite family over the have pizza and decorate a bit?
That fall is likely to slow you even more and I find it so upsetting to fall now that I'm nearly 73.
I appreciate your blogging so we know you're okay.
I hope to bake today but the frozen butter needs to soften!

Merry Christmas with hugs!
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