Amazing

I didn't tell anyone that I started this Blog on the 7th of January. I thought I might play around with it for awhile before I told anybody I know about it. Hah! My daughter found it and passed the word to my niece who passed the word to her dad (my brother) - so I guess the secret is out. A couple of blogger friends of my daughter left some nice welcoming remarks. Isn't the age of technology amazing?

My daughter is in Virginia, my niece is in Spain and my brother is in upstate New York. So much for keeping secrets. This one travelled 5000 miles in a very short time.

Not much to report from the heartland. The weather here has been just dull and grey. The big snowstorm went north of us and south of us. The sun just seems to have disappeared. Work has been going as good as work can go. I have a promotion waiting as soon as they can find a replacement for my current job. I am a foreman in a steel mill, soon to be a general foreman - which means I change from rotating shifts and having 11 people working for me, to having 4 foremen and about 60 people working for me. It will be straight dayshift which will be a change. I have worked at the plant for 32 years, all but 1 of those years was rotating shifts. Right now I work all three shifts each week, so the straight dayshift job will be a big change.

I got my wife an embroidery sewing machine for Christmas and as I sit writing this, she is upstairs embroidering a couple of cute bunnies and a heart on a sweatshirt for the granddaughter of one of her co-workers. She has been very busy since Christmas learning how to use it and has completed quite a few projects already.

That's all for now, but I'll be back.