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What I Have Been Busy With

Sorry for taking so long to get back to blogging. But it has been busy here. I have been busy healing. It is going really well. I am in very little pain and rarely notice that I have had surgery. I am still not as energetic as I was before the operation, but each day is getting better.
 I have been busy taking care of this little guy, too. He is on the move in his own style that is a cross between an army crawl and normal crawling. But he can get to where he wants to go and he is enjoying his new found freedom. He has also figured out how to sit back up after crawling, so that makes like a lot easier for Mom. I no longer have to rescue him from his tummy.
It is also Old Home Week on the Island, which is as close a fair as you get here. Yesterday was the parade, which was quite good. It was a nice warm day, and I was certainly glad that I was not marching in the parade.  It is sort of weird watching a parade that doesn't have any high school marching bands in it. There are a few community bands and several bagpipe and drum bands. It was a good parade, just different then what I am used to. We also took in the Exhibitions and saw all of the 4-H displays and animals. It will be really fun to take Joash there when he is a bit older. He slept through most of that part. Next year already, he will probably think the animals are pretty cool.

I have been busy with a few other things to, but I tell you about those next week.

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