This is more of a test to see if I can add video. It's a short piece of Susie working at the sewing machine, planning her next project. She goes through 'spurts' and does several. Today it was finishing a winter coat (it looked great) and then starting on decorations and bedspread for Alyssa. It looked great also. If this works out, there will be more video's. Stay tuned.

YES, THAT'S ME.
Sorry I haven't kept up. A little problem with my health. Came down with pneumonia on Dec. 22 and ended up in the hospital. I couldn't breathe very well but otherwise not bad. The kept me and pushed antibiotics for three days. On Xmas eve they sent me home, with oxygen attached. Thought I was doing okay until around New Years Eve. I got to feeling very bad and my chest hurt very badly. I thought I had a cracked rib from some of the coughing. Susie wanted to call an aid car and I protested. I went to the doctor for follow-up on Jan. 2. She listened to my right lung and sent me to x-ray and blood tests. When the results came back, she said my right lung was full of fluid and I needed to go back to the hospital. I spent another 7 days and got my lung drained with a BIG needle. More antibiotics and rest. Finally I went home. I have been resting, pretty much, since then. I get out a little but just a trip to the store brings me back home to my lounge chair to catch my breath and rest a bit. The doc said a couple months until I'm back to normal. It's cold outside so nothing much going on, anyway. TV sucks but I read a lot. I have been looking in the mirror and didn't like what I was seeing. With being sick and all, I was looking pretty poorly. So, I was starting to fear that Susie might call the cops and have them take me down and thow me under the bridge with the other poor souls , Sooooooo - off came my beard. Susie wasn't home when I cut it but when she came home, it took a minute for her to notice. She said it makes me look a lot younger. Maybe a little. Anyway, I don't look so scruffy. Some of you out there may not have ever seen me without a beard or did but don't remember. I grew it in 2004 after hunting. Anyway, I don't look forward to shaving again but I will manage. But it's really cold when I go outside. Temps at our place have been in the single digits at night and teens in the day. Snow this weekend, they say. We have had a foot of snow on the ground since the 2nd of Jan. Well, enough for now.