Around the World in 80 days (or in this case 95 days)

Well I only wish I could tell you that I have been on some great adventure these past 95 days (I seriously can't believe it's been that long since I posted anything), but then I would have to tell you a story.

The truth of the matter is basically much more simple. My Grand kids were out of school for the summer, and I had to step up and watch them during the day. Yep, family comes first. Now my grand kids are awesome, but at the end of the day I am just mentally exhausted. The last thing I wanted to do was sit down and do anything hobby.

That and trying to get myself and my Wife back in shape on the bicycle so we could go on our on tour this year after having missed doing so the last two years because of her bout with Cancer. She is cancer free now, but it has left her tore up after the radiation, chemo, and major surgery. So both of us are starting from scratch. After such a long period off the bikes we have lost a lot, but more importantly I still have my stoker partner (we ride a tandem together and the person on the back is called the stoker, the person in front the Captain) around to peddle at all. I will mention this about biking though, had it not been for the great shape she was in because of biking, I am not sure she would have had the physical endurance she showed to make it all the way through. Along with that and her mental hardness, I will simply say she was and is one tough son of a bitch. No way I could have endured what she went through.

Then over 4th of July I ended up in the hospital thinking I was having a heart problems, but it turned out to be heat exhaustion, exertion, and a wacky thyroid that went wackier after suffering heat exhaustion. My resting heart rate had dropped down to 40, and though I would like to think I am a world class athlete, I am simply not and knew I was in trouble. Took a few weeks to recover from that, but I am doing much better now, so I won't bore you with any more details other than to say thanks to all of you that emailed me to make sure I was still walking around on the planet.

So with one more week to go, my grand kids head back to school, so I expect my mental capacity to stabilize and hobby related stuff to get back on line.

Cheers
Kevin

PS
I expect to make a hobby post tomorrow as I have actually painted 12 whole figures this past week. You heard it right, 12 whole figures. Amazing, even though subconsciously I seemed to keep trying to sabotage my work.