Welcome to June’s update! We’re currently experiencing some real summer weather with highs in the 90s. I like being warm so I’m good with it.
Back on May 18,
my barbershop chorus had its annual show. We did two matinees at 2 and
5pm followed by an after glow. It went really well, and I had a lot of
fun singing and hearing great music.
I’ll talk about
my surgery later, but God decided I didn’t have enough to physically worry
about, so he had my dentist discover I needed a root canal as well. I had
one done on a back tooth several years ago, and this one was on a front tooth.
No fun, but the dentist did a great job and saved my tooth so I’m thankful for
that: no bridge needed!
Everyone is
back safely from their travels: Hannah and her kids, Krista, and Jem from
Kansas, and Kevin from Zambia, and we got to have a great time with everyone on
Memorial Day. Kevin and Hannah hosted and we all provided tasty
dishes. The weather wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t awful either, so we got
to be outside and enjoy God’s provision of our freedom through soldier’s
sacrifices, and His provision of good food.
June 7 was my
surgery to repair my large hiatal hernia. Everything went very smoothly
once they got me in. I was delayed by a more urgent case, so I was very
hungry and thirsty by the time I got in, but the surgery itself couldn’t have
gone better. The doctor said she had thought half my stomach was above my
diaphragm, but it turned out to be most of it, so I’m very glad I had this
done. I’m still on a soft food diet, so I missed all the good food at our
camping trip (next paragraph), but I’m feeling very good and recovering very
well. I have my post-op appointment on June 26, and I hope after that to
be back to eating whatever I want.
A beautiful bouquet Abigail's family sent me with Get Well wishes
All the local
family took a camping trip to Hamlin Beach State Park this past weekend.
We celebrated Fathers’ Day there, and had almost perfect weather. We
enjoyed the beach and lake and lots of games and fun together. Jem and I
actually went home at night—I wasn’t up to trying to sleep in a tent—but we
spent as much of the days there as we could.
Finally, here are some fun pictures of wildlife
that have been visiting our home and neighbors lately. We live in a
village so don’t often get deer in our yard—this is only the 2nd time in the
over 30 years here—but we’ve had a doe visit us regularly lately. And our
neighbor cut down a tree, and a Pileated woodpecker has been enjoying eating
the bugs that have taken residence in the stump.
Can you see the doe hiding behind our trampoline?
Thanks for
reading, and we’ll talk in July.
