I am getting a laptop. I really need a new computer, the one I am using is 10 years old. You can imagine what a hassle that has been. I am right in the middle of looking at someon'es lenses and I get locked up.

I decided to get a laptop because then my husband an I can use the computer at the same time. Hey, we met on-line. Maybe we'll start flirting again, lol.

The reason for my windfall was the death of my 95 year old mother in May. She had made me the beneficiary of a small but sizeable (to me) life insurance policy. My mother was a very big supporter of my writing. When I was 10 years old, she bought me a tape recorder so I could tape my stories. She took me to meet a published writer to have one of my stories critqued. She cut out and kept every article I wrote for a weekly newspaper, and I wrote that column for 4 years. She made a church banner on the theme of one of the spiritual articles I had published.

She went blind and then got dementia before she could see the things I have published on-line, but I know she would have asked me to print them out for her.
So I have no doubt that she would want me to have a good computer to continue my writing. 

The check came today. I'm going shopping!

You can see a picture of my very supportive mother on my lens The Art of Copper Enameling.