Yikes! I havn't posted anything to the site for almost a month. Bad kitty!! Well I guess an update is in order. We are into our third or fourth winter for this year at the moment. Here it is beginning of May, we're itching to get out and work on the yard, and what's this?!! they've closed highway 2 to Calgary because of a blizzard?! As I speak, the snowflakes are still coming down.
For any of my faithful readers (all two of you) who aren't in the know, it's been a pretty rough last two weeks in the 'ol Hilton house. Two weeks ago I ended up in the hospital for four days as a result of an infection that hit me like a Mac truck. The infection was caused by a biopsy I had on my prostate to check for possible malignancy. As I was recovering from the infection we got word that the tests were positive for cancer of the prostate. So, now I am booked for surgery on June 13 to get that puppy taken out, which means my plans to finish my front yard landscape project have gone up in smoke, unless I can recruit some naive lackies to come and do some grunt labor for me. Having three daughters with lots of friends helps. In the meantime, Dianne has me on all kinds of evil tasting concoctions and vitamins and supplements to try and healthen me up. Have you ever noticed that the things that are good for you taste vile, whereas the stuff that is delicious will kill you? We have been overwhelmed with people calling and approaching us to offer their well wishes and prayers for us for which I am very grateful. We are expecting a miracle! Anyway I have about a month in which to get a major component of my front yard installed so if it would just stop snowing long enough......
A couple of weeks ago we were at a friend's daughter's wedding and I had a chance to field test the new digitial camera. I was quite impressed with the quality of the images and apart from a few problems in getting used to the operation, the unit works very well. Here is a photo of Dianne and I taken at the wedding. The image has beeen resized smaller to accomodate downloading so it looks a little grainy

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