Catch up – as usual.
Clever brother, Judith. 
I still have not tried downloading my pictures to the computer. I MUST get with the program here. ;(
re Japan: Shogun is good reading if you’re interested in Japan around 1600. The rest of James Clavell’s Asia series bring the Orient into the 20th century very well. Japan progressed some thanks to Will _______, the American who did so much to show the shogun about the rest of the world, as he knew it. Great series. If you’d like the names of the books, holler…I have them all.
Lovely ladies? Thank you kind sir.
I’ve done very little quilting lately – since leaving TX, I’ve not found a compatible group. There are some quilters here but the one I’d be most interested in working with tends to her husband who is wheelchair bound outside of their apartment. My brother, not BIL, and I drove from MD to CA where SIL Margaret had entered my quilt in the county fair. I took second; first place went to a placemat size piece. Both were in the same group because both were made by hand. I still don’t see how a queen-size quilt can be compared to a placemat! I guess the reason was because the quilt was 1/2 inch out of square. Ah well.
I did inded get tired of the embroidery of those @#!$%^&*()_ yellow tulips. Eventually I got them all done and the quilting was the most fun. It was really lovely, too, and I’m NOT a yellow fan.
I’m happy too to hear of your progress after the new knee. As Darlyne says, keep it moving. Like all else, it’s a case of use it or lose it.
See next post for bash news.