Have been increasingly occupied by leisure pursuits this year – snowshoeing, travel (BC – Vancouver, Van Island, Interior and Kootnays, Shuswap), and US twice, Mexico and Japan), concerts, new motorbike and several bike trips – but did find time to finish upstairs bookcase, interior stairs (except for railing), laundry room cabinets, bathroom door, bathroom cabinet doors and drawer fronts, shop cabinets, porch post, beams and soffit, lots-but-not-all landscaping (more sod, outdoor stairs, and rock retaining walls).  Progress ground to a halt in mid-November as I had surgery to remove a dupuytren from my hand, necessitating at least 6 weeks of recovery.  Did finish the cabinet door/drawer fronts in the guest/master bathrooms just before the surgery.  Post surgery, I have going through my gold mine of old records, and 35mm slides from the past 40 years.

We had many very enjoyable visits by friends, family and former colleagues from Vancouver, Ottawa, Sask, N.H., NYC, Wash D.C., and Japan.

Next projects, once hand is working again, will be upstairs cabinet and shelves, stair railing, entrance closet, kitchen drawer fronts, and some door trim.  Hand looks worse than it is and I have every confidence it will be fully functioning in the weeks ahead (albeit with a few very sexy scars).

And I shall close with a photo of our Fir Christmas tree from our property, and we wish you a most merry Christmas and all the best in the new year.