Christmas parade in Hendersonville today.
Lions are marching in the parade.
It’s raining.
I’m not marching with them. I’ll let the younger folks do that.
🙂 Beautiful hoarfrost on everything outside this morning
🙂 Hosted a lovely potluck last night – all the ladies in our small group said I didn’t have to make anything to eat, just decorate and host. I did provide beverages: punch, coffee, tea and apple cider.
🙂 They all loved the decor which was mostly pink and to which I added lime green and turquoise to dilute the baby shower pink
🙂 The food was so delicious – ham, turkey, cabbage rolls, potato casserole, several different salads and desserts!
🙂 Found out both children and one’s girlfriend can all come home just after Christmas so that made my very happy
😦 Tomorrow will not seem like Sunday – first toddler room and then heading in to Saskatoon for the annual banquet for Camp Kadesh, with shopping in between.
🙂 Will get to see daughter tomorrow
🙂 The baby shower was a success even though we had to move the location
🙂 Small group invited Gunner to join us. He is an older Scottish farmer who lives nearby – such a funny man. He had asked Gary to help him bring his goats in for auction. When Gary got there, Gunner had the goats already loaded in the pickup – in the cab!!!!! The drive to town was quite smelly and they were almost deaf from the bleating! We thoroughly enjoyed meeting him and I think he had a good time last night.
🙂 Enjoyed the week off, got some needed things done around the house, more to do today.
🙂 Nice day yesterday with an old friend schlepping around the Christmas craft fair we go to every year. Only gift I found was a cute potholder with cows on it for a friend who likes cows — and that was all I bought this year. One of my favorite vendors, who makes colonial candlesticks that I love, wasn’t there this year, saving me some money. 🙂
🙂 On the way to dinner afterward, we drove through my cousin’s wonderful historic Long Beach neighborhood and he was out decorating & hanging lights on his house, so we stopped and he gave us the neighborhood walking tour. He bought a wonderful house from the early 1900s that he’s restored — gorgeous woodworking inside, complete with a pocket door and all the old touches.
🙂 I’m getting together with him and another cousin tomorrow for a decorated open house tour that he participated in — he invited us & bought our tickets, which was very generous.
😦 Unfortunately, I’ll have to miss church as the timing conflicts.
🙂 It’s back to work Monday for me, and it’s already shaping up to be a very busy week, but I’ll get another week off after that.
🙂 I like this one-week-on, one-week-off schedule. I could easily get used to that.
🙂 😦 Going to the doctor Tuesday for a checkup, it’s time — and I always stress out over these appointments. I still need to make an appt for the mammogram, too. I’m not good about going in to the doctor every year — but I do manage to get in every couple or *few* years. I have an RN friend who never goes in for regular blood work or checkups. That would make me crazy, I’d only imagine the worst after a while and would become a total hypochondriac.
🙂 I see the Zamperini movie is getting heavily promoted and advertised now, I may get to see a pre-release screening of it the week after next. I interviewed his son again recently for another story (which is going into our Rose Parade edition) and he told me that the faith element is included in the film but not in the overt way than some may have wanted/expected.
No one was cast as Billy Graham, in other words, and the film essentially ends with Louie’s liberation — though the rest of the story appears in “tiles” as an afterward as the film concludes. The Christian faith element was always something his dad insisted upon including, the son told me, but he said that the family felt the way it was handled in the film “works.”
I’m so sorry Louie didn’t live long enough for the film’s big release, but Jolie took the raw version on her laptop to him in the hospital last summer before he died, so he essentially saw the film & was pleased with what he saw, according to the family.
🙂 Fairly simple annual checkup for Annie Oakley this past week, she wasn’t due for any of her shots so that saved some money.
🙂 Talked to my vet (again) about indoor-vs.-outdoor cats … He said that while there are dangers lurking outdoors for cats — and that, statistically speaking, they have shorter life spans, it’s his opinion that cats that get to go outdoors are mentally better adjusted and happier animals.
🙂 As I was checking out to pay the bill, a new gal at the front desk called me Ms. Oakley. I said, “No, that would be the cat. And you can just call her Annie.”
So I’d be something of a young “babe” to an 85-year-old. 🙂 And with goats in the truck cab, I can imagine the house … But on the up side, that means he wouldn’t be too picky if I missed dusting one weekend … or two. Hmmm. 🙂 He sounds sweet.
🙂 The frost pics are gorgeous.
🙂 It’s 72 degrees here today and very bright and sunny.
🙂 Debating about going Christmas tree shopping today — or putting it off a while. If I put it off too long, though, I always just figure it’s too late in the season to go through all the hassle & expense — and I just make the small artificial ones suffice.
🙂 I actually gave myself permission to skip church this morning! Something that I absolutely never do. But now that I have handed over the offering I can stay home! Just too busy a time with concerts both of the last nights and I will go to the Highlands prayer time this afternoon and church tonight.
😦 Didn’t figure out until I woke up this morning that the trouble I had sleeping last night due to congestion was because I forgot to take an allergy pill yesterday.
🙂 Bought nothing but enjoyed cruising through the aisles filled with glitter and evergreen and ribbon
🙂 Went to Olive Garden afterward for their soup-and-salad, all you can eat lunch/dinner.
🙂 My friend’s neighbor (who does handy work) was outside when i dropped her off so he came over to take a look at my rickety gate which he says he can replace. Yay.
🙂 Spent yesterday afternoon/evening with my MIL. We helped her put up her tree and other Christmas decorations. It’s become an annual tradition. I had a good time and she was very grateful for the help. It’s amazing she’s still with us, considering she was diagnosed with brain cancer over three years ago now. She shows no signs of being sick–the incredibly expensive experimental treatment she received three years ago successfully shrunk the tumors so they are not causing any side effects. We’ve come a long way in our relationship in the last five years. MIL is aware of my Mom’s situation. She gave me a good hug and told me she loved me as we were leaving. Tears sprang to my eyes and I told her I loved her, too. I’m pretty sure that’s the first time she’s told me she loved me. Sure felt good after almost sixteen years of being a Strawn.
🙂 Shopping was surprisingly painless yesterday. We found everything we needed at Dillard’s and didn’t have to venture into the mall. I even got a close parking spot!
😦 Issues in my family-of-origin. Alcoholism. Denial. Rage.
🙂 I’m almost done with my Christmas shopping and all of the items received thus far are wrapped. (I order almost everything online). I usually procrastinate with wrapping and end up doing it into the wee hours on Christmas Eve, which leaves me exhausted on Christmas morning. It feels so good to not be in that position this year.
they don’t want them to be wrapped in the suitcase, right. So nothing is wrapped. Trying to remember if I left paper with my stuff. Oh, yes, I will be staying in the missions house, but it will be interesting finding my winter things. and I am coming home without shoes to wear, just sandals. Since my shoes have a five inch slit in the side, they are getting thrown away before I leave. Last year when I went to get my things I got stuck in the ice and snow in my friends steep driveway. Should be interesting!
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Christmas parade in Hendersonville today.
Lions are marching in the parade.
It’s raining.
I’m not marching with them. I’ll let the younger folks do that.
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I can’t go through the list–see my rant on the main page!
Praise God, though, for rain!
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🙂 Beautiful hoarfrost on everything outside this morning
🙂 Hosted a lovely potluck last night – all the ladies in our small group said I didn’t have to make anything to eat, just decorate and host. I did provide beverages: punch, coffee, tea and apple cider.
🙂 They all loved the decor which was mostly pink and to which I added lime green and turquoise to dilute the baby shower pink
🙂 The food was so delicious – ham, turkey, cabbage rolls, potato casserole, several different salads and desserts!
🙂 Found out both children and one’s girlfriend can all come home just after Christmas so that made my very happy
😦 Tomorrow will not seem like Sunday – first toddler room and then heading in to Saskatoon for the annual banquet for Camp Kadesh, with shopping in between.
🙂 Will get to see daughter tomorrow
🙂 The baby shower was a success even though we had to move the location
🙂 Small group invited Gunner to join us. He is an older Scottish farmer who lives nearby – such a funny man. He had asked Gary to help him bring his goats in for auction. When Gary got there, Gunner had the goats already loaded in the pickup – in the cab!!!!! The drive to town was quite smelly and they were almost deaf from the bleating! We thoroughly enjoyed meeting him and I think he had a good time last night.
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Haha. Is Gunner married? 🙂
And what is hoarfrost?
🙂 Enjoyed the week off, got some needed things done around the house, more to do today.
🙂 Nice day yesterday with an old friend schlepping around the Christmas craft fair we go to every year. Only gift I found was a cute potholder with cows on it for a friend who likes cows — and that was all I bought this year. One of my favorite vendors, who makes colonial candlesticks that I love, wasn’t there this year, saving me some money. 🙂
🙂 On the way to dinner afterward, we drove through my cousin’s wonderful historic Long Beach neighborhood and he was out decorating & hanging lights on his house, so we stopped and he gave us the neighborhood walking tour. He bought a wonderful house from the early 1900s that he’s restored — gorgeous woodworking inside, complete with a pocket door and all the old touches.
🙂 I’m getting together with him and another cousin tomorrow for a decorated open house tour that he participated in — he invited us & bought our tickets, which was very generous.
😦 Unfortunately, I’ll have to miss church as the timing conflicts.
🙂 It’s back to work Monday for me, and it’s already shaping up to be a very busy week, but I’ll get another week off after that.
🙂 I like this one-week-on, one-week-off schedule. I could easily get used to that.
🙂 😦 Going to the doctor Tuesday for a checkup, it’s time — and I always stress out over these appointments. I still need to make an appt for the mammogram, too. I’m not good about going in to the doctor every year — but I do manage to get in every couple or *few* years. I have an RN friend who never goes in for regular blood work or checkups. That would make me crazy, I’d only imagine the worst after a while and would become a total hypochondriac.
🙂 I see the Zamperini movie is getting heavily promoted and advertised now, I may get to see a pre-release screening of it the week after next. I interviewed his son again recently for another story (which is going into our Rose Parade edition) and he told me that the faith element is included in the film but not in the overt way than some may have wanted/expected.
No one was cast as Billy Graham, in other words, and the film essentially ends with Louie’s liberation — though the rest of the story appears in “tiles” as an afterward as the film concludes. The Christian faith element was always something his dad insisted upon including, the son told me, but he said that the family felt the way it was handled in the film “works.”
I’m so sorry Louie didn’t live long enough for the film’s big release, but Jolie took the raw version on her laptop to him in the hospital last summer before he died, so he essentially saw the film & was pleased with what he saw, according to the family.
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🙂 Fairly simple annual checkup for Annie Oakley this past week, she wasn’t due for any of her shots so that saved some money.
🙂 Talked to my vet (again) about indoor-vs.-outdoor cats … He said that while there are dangers lurking outdoors for cats — and that, statistically speaking, they have shorter life spans, it’s his opinion that cats that get to go outdoors are mentally better adjusted and happier animals.
🙂 As I was checking out to pay the bill, a new gal at the front desk called me Ms. Oakley. I said, “No, that would be the cat. And you can just call her Annie.”
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Donna, Gunner is not married – but he’d like to be 🙂
I will send a picture to AJ of hoarfrost.
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Kare!
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Donna, you’ll have to check Facebook – I don’t seem to have AJ’s correct email.
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Gunner is 85 years old – very spry for his age! Apparently he is a horrendous housekeeper.
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🙂 My husband is a very happy man over a project he is working on.
😦 My husband is quite a distracted man, with the importance of the project he is working on.
🙂 Wild turkeys, flying chickadees, whitetail bucks, and other nice sightings and decent photos.
😦 We don’t yet have our tree in the house or decorated, and I’ve made notes for my Christmas letter but otherwise haven’t started it yet.
🙂 The Christmas shopping is finished, or at least my share of it is.
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Be very wary of online matchmakers.
😆
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So I’d be something of a young “babe” to an 85-year-old. 🙂 And with goats in the truck cab, I can imagine the house … But on the up side, that means he wouldn’t be too picky if I missed dusting one weekend … or two. Hmmm. 🙂 He sounds sweet.
🙂 The frost pics are gorgeous.
🙂 It’s 72 degrees here today and very bright and sunny.
🙂 Debating about going Christmas tree shopping today — or putting it off a while. If I put it off too long, though, I always just figure it’s too late in the season to go through all the hassle & expense — and I just make the small artificial ones suffice.
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🙂 I actually gave myself permission to skip church this morning! Something that I absolutely never do. But now that I have handed over the offering I can stay home! Just too busy a time with concerts both of the last nights and I will go to the Highlands prayer time this afternoon and church tonight.
😦 Didn’t figure out until I woke up this morning that the trouble I had sleeping last night due to congestion was because I forgot to take an allergy pill yesterday.
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🙂 I can also listen to the service live on my computer!
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Good morning Jo. 🙂
🙂 Looks like a friend and I are off to Michael’s crafts shop this afternoon, I love that place and haven’t been there since probably last Christmas.
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🙂 Bought nothing but enjoyed cruising through the aisles filled with glitter and evergreen and ribbon
🙂 Went to Olive Garden afterward for their soup-and-salad, all you can eat lunch/dinner.
🙂 My friend’s neighbor (who does handy work) was outside when i dropped her off so he came over to take a look at my rickety gate which he says he can replace. Yay.
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😦 College football teams that play well until it matters.
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🙂 Spent yesterday afternoon/evening with my MIL. We helped her put up her tree and other Christmas decorations. It’s become an annual tradition. I had a good time and she was very grateful for the help. It’s amazing she’s still with us, considering she was diagnosed with brain cancer over three years ago now. She shows no signs of being sick–the incredibly expensive experimental treatment she received three years ago successfully shrunk the tumors so they are not causing any side effects. We’ve come a long way in our relationship in the last five years. MIL is aware of my Mom’s situation. She gave me a good hug and told me she loved me as we were leaving. Tears sprang to my eyes and I told her I loved her, too. I’m pretty sure that’s the first time she’s told me she loved me. Sure felt good after almost sixteen years of being a Strawn.
🙂 Shopping was surprisingly painless yesterday. We found everything we needed at Dillard’s and didn’t have to venture into the mall. I even got a close parking spot!
😦 Issues in my family-of-origin. Alcoholism. Denial. Rage.
🙂 I’m almost done with my Christmas shopping and all of the items received thus far are wrapped. (I order almost everything online). I usually procrastinate with wrapping and end up doing it into the wee hours on Christmas Eve, which leaves me exhausted on Christmas morning. It feels so good to not be in that position this year.
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they don’t want them to be wrapped in the suitcase, right. So nothing is wrapped. Trying to remember if I left paper with my stuff. Oh, yes, I will be staying in the missions house, but it will be interesting finding my winter things. and I am coming home without shoes to wear, just sandals. Since my shoes have a five inch slit in the side, they are getting thrown away before I leave. Last year when I went to get my things I got stuck in the ice and snow in my friends steep driveway. Should be interesting!
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