how are you doing? havent heard anything new on your blog and am wondering if you are doing ok. hopefully you are a miss thin minny by now and you blood sugars are under control. fall has started here and we had to turn on the heater and get the wood stove going last night. i love the first day we turn on the wood stove because my yongest son learned how to make tortillas and he always makes them on the first day. ok well a couple of times during the winter but for some reason his first tortillas are the best. wish i could send you one.

Thank you for your concern.
I am doing fine, but had shoulder surgery which has made it hard to type. So I am taking it easy right now. The shoulder surgery was the result of helping my husband put up the above ground pool which was supposed to help me recuperate from my lapband surgery, but it hasn't worked out that way. I am doing better from both.
I have lost about 35 pounds. I am very pleased with both my surgeries. My shoulder actually feels better than it has in years (I am naturally heavy breasted, and my bra straps really jacked with my shoulders over time).

The tortillas sound great. I love them made on a woodstove. I also love bacon cooked in a cast iron skillet on a wood stove. Better yet, a bacon-wrapped filet. Bad for me, I know. Why do all the good things have to be bad for me?

I really miss having a fireplace for the "feel" of it, but I don't miss the smoke. We have a little woodstove with the cooktop, but we haven't set it up, it isn't covered under the homeowner's insurance we have with this place. Still, I hate to see all that oak wood from the dead oak tree go to waste out there.

Tortillas made with South Texas Mesquite, now that is a real treat. There is just something about that wood that really gives tortillas special flavor. (Think River Walk in San Antonio.) We are going to get some mesquite from the ranch when we go down there, once I lose another twenty pounds or so. (Then I am supposed to be free to travel where ever and when ever I want.) I would really love to send you some of those tortillas....