Howdy y'all, thanks so much for listening. Just a quick update..... As some of you know, I had surgery in February, 2017 to fix damaged cartilage in my left wrist. I guess MRI doesn't show quite everything, because the hand surgeon found massive destruction of joint structures that was completely unsuspected, based on imaging. See, I have a connective tissue abnormality, and my joints kind of fall apart easily. What this means is more surgery to, uh, "salvage the joint," as they so delicately put it. Taking out some of the little bones, fusing things...ugh, I don't even want to think about it! What this means for my music: (censored!) I've been in a wrist brace ever since surgery #1, and hoping to talk my hand surgeon into putting in a certain kind of artificial wrist joint that will be more like a normal joint vs the other options, all of which come with severely reduced range of motion....not good for a banjo player! Bottom line: If I get an artificial wrist I'm gonna rehab that sucker like crazy! I've got whole lots of chunes that I haven't recorded yet, and it's all riding on my left wrist getting rebuilt. Hope all y'all have had a decent summer, not plagued with injuries or hurricanes or fires....now to have a nice safe (well, you know what I mean, dontcha?) cozy winter...crank up those chunes and dance! Always makes me feel mo betta. All my best xxx Laura