 Hello and welcome to the rugged rockhound. I just wanted to take a moment and explain some things that have been going on kind of why I've Been away, and you haven't heard anything. I haven't been interacting with anybody We haven't moved and we probably won't move for a while. I Had a major medical issue come up, and it it was pretty bad. I was out of work for over a month I Was in the hospital they did a bunch of testing good news they figured out what was wrong Unfortunately will require surgery It's just one of those medical things that sometimes your body has you know that you're just born with really and It kind of just makes me kind of Sick all the time in a way and I'm taking medication to make it well enough that I'm Functioning but it's still not great And it won't Get fixed until after the surgery, so I appreciate your patience and waiting for for things to happen. I Probably will not be any doing any rockhounding till after the surgery and after I've recovered Hopefully if everything goes well the surgery should fix the problem and actually My health will probably be better than it's been in years Behind the scenes this has been affecting me for years, and I didn't really realize it so fingers crossed Everything goes well the surgery probably won't happen for another month, but when it does I just ask for your your hopes and prayers that everything goes well that Everything gets resolved taken care of that I can heal quickly and that If everything goes as we hope it should actually fix the problem for the rest of my life And I should have better health than I've experienced in a long time, which means Get out rockhanding again and really have a good time rockhanding, so Just letting you know what's going on between now in the surgery I might be able to get a few rock cutting videos out depending on how I feel and the time I have I am back at work, so I'm well enough to work again, but yeah, that's where I'm at so I appreciate your patience just letting you know where things are at and Let's hope everything goes well with the surgery and the recovery Until next time remember there's treasure everywhere, but of course Take care of your health Take care of yourself first And that's what I'm gonna do Thanks