IN Carmel

  Yes, it's Tuesday all day. I decided it would be a cooking day.  It really became a short cooking day.  The frozen turkey came out of the refrigerator spending some time in a bath of cold water until I could take all the part out that were stuffed inside. The oven is reserved for most of the afternoon. Gravy is coming although I'm the only one that likes gravy. I also am the only one that likes stuffing.  Boo Hoo.  I usually skip that.  Way to many carbs for a diabetic.  But first there was a trip to Needlers where Kat works for cranberry relish.  I added a chicken pie for supper and a bag of salad greens.   Then it was off to Aldi's where I really did some damage.  The place was busy with shoppers.  Doug missed out on this trip.  The thought came to me that if I don't have a certain food in the house, too bad.  There will be many choices. We will be just fine and will go with what we have.  Pizza, sloppy joes,...

  What a morning it has been.  I would say almost unbelievable.  But believable in my world.  I do get into things.  Yesterday's work pointed to this morning's time to finish all the visual arts details at North.  I expected just a tad bit of time but NO.  Four of us worked from 9:30 till almost 1.  The church in every nook and cranny of the main level is ready for the world to visually see Christmas.  We are open and ready.   I made an assessment. There seemed to be more nativities this year on display and discovered that really was true. About a month ago with the nativities stored in drawers I pulled drawers that I thought would give us a taste of Christmas.  Not all of them but some that the youth group would bring to the first level.  Now Grandson Noah is in the youth group.  I discovered that Noah was at the drawer site pulling all the drawers wanting them all displayed.  And we have emptied all the drawers...

 Woo, what a day.  Details are coming.   Up earlier than usual.  I must have had something on my mind.  Showered and breakfast and then some TV and knitting again with some new yarn.  I sort of like it.  We left for church a little earlier than usual.  There were things to do and miles to go before... I talked with folks.  Decided to push the carts into the sanctuary side aisles with 5 boxes of nativities on each cart.  The instrumentalist agreed to clean up their spot in the sanctuary. The advent candles were moved in. The balcony folks were given another job to do in the balcony. The time after church got a little easier with designated jobs given to designated people.  The Christ the King Sunday the last Sunday of the church year was well received and celebrated with a wonderful thinking sermon, great music, visuals and liturgy.  After the last postlude note the parishioners came on in droves and proved once again their...

 Another good day of doing things but that sure took a lot of energy. I call that a good day.  The morning started, yes, with a little knitting.  At 8 I was off to church arriving at 8:20 with Christmas roping and a will to get Bread and Bowl on the way.  And I did both.  I dumped the roping in the west entrance and then off to the Community Room with 30 minutes of work time before Sarah Ellen arrived.  That early prep time means that when Sarah Ellen arrives, we are ready to start filling take home containers. It's a two person job and we've worked together for years so the job gets completed asap.   Then it was on to other things that need to be completed like washing tables and more.  By 9 more folks arrived to do more preparation.  Today the crowd was a little smaller.  We had just a little food left meaning all who came had all the food they needed.  That was a good feeling.  After all was cleaned up, Heidi and I move...

 It's another yucky day.  Gray all day with rain added here and there.  My dad who was the Oscar almanac guy, Oscar being his name always told us the creeks needed to be full before winter really came.  I guess the creeks are trying to be full. They can hold off yet for a month or so.  So what happened today?  It was the usual big 4 day.  Knitting, sewing, snoozing and the Y.   The knitting part means that two scarves are in the process.  One has new yarn on so it's sort of interesting with green some pink, some black and a little white.  One never knows what color is coming next.  The second one is white yarn.  Not so interesting but one I really like.  Ten more burps are in process when thinking about sewing.  The Y included a fast mile walk in less than 30 minutes.  My legs were tired but Chopin really made the walk enjoyable.  I passed through many parks in Costa Rica. Paths filled with tree roots a...

 The day started really slowly, like slow motion.  And it stayed slow for most of the day.  I did an early spider web cleaning.  This house always has a lot of them on Doug's level.  That's the lower level and he just doesn't see them or perhaps not bothered with them. So, I did a quick do. I'm hoping he will clear his second room.  But probably won't.  Being married for 58 years to the same guy helps with predictability.  Then there was a slow start with knitting.  That didn't go very far.  There was bird watching.  There weren't many birds.  I think they are missing the big tree that came down last spring.  They are not telling me that but I'm trying to do some bird thinking.  Am I right?  Who knows.  I say I'm right because you don't know if I'm wrong. Today was a Living Strong meeting at the Y.  The results of this meeting was 1 1/2 hours of talking with friends about anything that wanted to be talk...