Hello, dear friends! Welcome back to Share Your Style #390!! My cataract eye surgery went well and I am a week out now. I went to the 2nd post-op yesterday and the right eye is doing well. The incision is healed and I am seeing very well already.
As you may know, I chose to go with multi-focal lenses, and even with the quirky “seeing the lens rings” around halogen lights, the rest of the vision is so exceptional, it’s fine. What I mean is that the eye actually “sees” a reflection of the lens’ circular configuration. I also see light refracting off the lens when light comes in sideways. You get used to it. So, if you are looking to have cataract surgery soon, I highly recommend the multi-focal lenses for vision like you had as a kid! It’s worth the extra money… 🙂
I see only one moon again and stars look normal ~ no more long tails and starbursts around them! Yeah!!! Driving at night is great and now I don’t have to wear glasses. There is a bit of scarring on my left eye, the first eye done, so that will be lasered off at the end of June.
***This is the Mayor of Paris’ office building ~ part of last year’s wonderful trip to France with my daughter. 🙂
Well, I literally took two full weeks off from all blogging, so no posts this week for me. Instead, you get a little insight as to WHY I haven’t blogged much this year. My biggest news is that my husband will be moving to a new position with a new company after the July 4th holiday.
We have known since two weeks before Christmas (really great timing!) that the entire division of 90 people would be “softly laid off.” The company is moving the Reverse Logistics group from Texas to California (go figure!). Hubby doesn’t want to move back, nor could we afford it anymore (we weren’t doing well financially there, as it was anyway). On Zillow, our first and second homes show at $513,000 and $620,000, respectively. (Now if we could have sold at either of those prices…)
A bit devastating to me, since the last time Hubby was out of work, he was out of his usual work for two full years. He continued coaching pole vault and the final year he also was the head coach at our grown children’s high school. We had to sell our second home, but as it turned out living at Lake Skinner for a year as a camp host turned out to be a wonderful way to slowly say goodbye to our “hometown” of Murrieta, California. This linked post shares some of that last home and a little of Riverside County Parks – Lake Skinner, Winchester, California.
So it is definitely a huge God thing, a wonderful blessing!, that we won’t have to sell another home under duress. (We have only been here in Texas 6 1/2 years!) Hubby will get to use his coaching talents in a new way. This was something one of the interviewers was interested in as Mr. Ethereal coached for eight years while working his other jobs as well.
So, happily, I can truly relax this summer, and get back to wandering about, photographing life, and to blogging… Posts coming soon! 🙂
Let’s get to your wonderful posts!!
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And here are this week’s featured posts…
First up this week we have Debbee of Debbee’s Buzz who shared a trip worthy of a lifetime ~ a visit to Sequoia National Park: Land of [America’s] Giants. Do check out her post! The trees are MASSIVE! <3
(*America added for our overseas friends!*)
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For a double-header this week, CoCo also brings us this perfect-way-to-relax post ~ Simple Ways to Elevate Your Morning, part of her Celebrating Life series.
Honorable Mention
Longtime blogger Amber from The Hungry Mountaineer shared this fun post about Bohemian Fashion Treasure-Hunting via Yucca Valley Thrifting. Love thrift shops!!! You get the best things there!!!
***Sorry this wouldn’t post up! The photos are fun and Yucca Valley is beautiful and warm during the day in January/February for camping/hiking. If you get the chance to visit, please enjoy!
Thank You so much to everyone who linked up this past week. A special thank you to everyone for always promoting Share Your Style on your blog and on your social media channels! I do see it when I stop by and I appreciate the love. 💜
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I had no idea how emotional I was going to get writing this SYS post for you today… I have said to Charles several times that I just couldn’t go through losing another home… I loved the four years we lived in our two RV’s, but the walls are very thin and RV’s move in the wind and storms. There is something about a solid house which I personally need. It’s a deep longing and may have a lot to do with being a military child and living in 42 different homes over the years. Funny how this didn’t hit me until I was long grown!
It has taken a while but I have fallen in love with our little brick home, our manor house. <3
Thanks again, friends, for hanging in there with me! I truly appreciate your friendship and I do hope we can meet in person one day…
Love and hugs,
Barb 🙂