My love to you all. I'm home and as fit as one can be after being hit by an 18-wheeler (metaphor? simile?).

It's not true what Eric & Betty Armstrong said. I told them I'm going to OPEN a bacon sandwich shop to cut down the stressful travelling.

God bless Medicare. I went into Princeton General after a neck pain didn't go away all night. They did the protein test and I failed it miserably. They ambulanced me to Kelowna General (1 1/2 hrs away) where I got the worst angiogram in Christendom. Too many stents were needed and they don't do open heart surgery there. So I was in hospital there for a week waiting for a bed at one of the Lower Mainland hospitals. They flew me down to the New Westminster Hospital Thursday, had my five by-passes done on Friday and thrown out today. My US friends - what would that have cost me in the US?

Rika and I are looking forward to 20 more years of the work we love and will take great pleasure in seeing you all again, either here at the Princeton Traditional Music Festival (19-21 August 2011 hint hint) or in your neck of the woods.

Jon "Lucky" Bartlett