Happy New Year

As starts go for the new year mine was just a little rough.  The Monday after Christmas I came down with the intestinal flu that had made it's way through most of my family since Thanksgiving.  Guess that is what I get for getting cocky and thinking I had avoided it.  Must admit though that it helped me to get rid of a few of the pounds that I put on over the holiday.  Now I'm ready to get back to eating healthier and getting back to my work outs.  Today I made one of my favorites, tuna patties, for lunch.  My recipe makes four so I could have one for lunch and now have some for tuna pattie sandwiches this week.  I've also got a turkey meatloaf in the oven.  Mmmmmm, meatloaf.  I could eat it 6 days a week.

I have started machine quilting Jack's heavy equipment quilt.  I got most of the straight line quilting done. Now just need to do the borders and some more quilting in each of the blocks.  I really don't have a good set up for machine quilting so it is a little slow going.  I also need to work on my block exchange block for January.

Vacation in 2010 was a trip to London and Paris, complicated by the volcano last spring.  This year I'm going to do something I have thought about for about 3 or 4 years.  I'm going to go out to Wyoming and go on a 3 day wagon train excursion into the Tetons.   It is kinda in honor of my dad as he did quite a bit of his growing up in South Dakota.  The last time I drove he and mom out west for a Lei reunion we saw a wagon train just outside Belle Fourche and dad seemed to be intrigued by the idea.  I saw an article about a ranch that runs the 4 day trips so I have contacted them for more information.  I feel confident enough in the progress I have made and will continue to make in my health that I want to do this.  I have always been intrigued with the West and so why not go.  I went out a couple of days ago and bought a pair of hiking shoe/boot so that I can get them broken in before the trip.  The other think I have to do is to brush up my riding skills.  Not sure if I will contact a friend who has horses or just go out to someplace like Sundance.

Well, enough lallygagging, back to sewing.

Best wishes for a happy and prosperous new year.