Year 6

Yes, today is 5 years since my heart attack. It seems longer somehow and with health better than it has been in years I thought about giving up my commemoration of the event but sometimes its good to be mindful and thankful, especially after a 12 month where there have been so many deaths in my life, mother, mother in law, my sister in law's brother, a friend, one of my wife's friends, Hector, Xena the Warrior Bunny, Fat cat (ok there was great rejoicing at that one), have I forgotten anyone? Anyway, its good to be alive for a while yet.  What's the saying? Vallar Morghulis?

Anyway this is also 1/2 way through my 6th year of blogging which is almost harder to grasp. Good thing the data storage is free thus far.

Five years ago and already experimenting with a grid as I convalesced.

But what's ahead in the nearer future?

More of this for starters! 

After all this searching things are feeling more settled than they have so far at  any point in this century. So, more late 19C colonial-ish figures, terrain and games, more 40mm medieval fantasy on Gathering of Hosts, and probably less variety in the short term.

Gathering of Hosts starts taking itself even less seriously.

But don't fret, experience suggests it won't last. Today I got confident enough to finally haul a pile of my hills out to the "workshop" corner of the woodshed so I could run them through the tablesaw to square up corners and bring them to multiples of 3" as much as possible as well as testing the process of cutting some scraps of 1/4" masonite into bases. I think I need a sharper blade with smaller teeth for that chore.  While I was there I looked at the the stacks of molds from several different periods, makes, and ranges and thought "This money is already spent, I need to make more use of more of these".  Not sure yet what that means, time will tell!

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