Caroling at Daryls. |
Uncle Howard preached at Barnwell on
Sunday on "God's Gift of Love". After we got home I put
together dinner for us. I tried a copy-cat recipe of O'Charley's
"Prime Rib Pasta" with steak and asparagus. It was good but not
quite up to the original. I think I would like to try it again and
fine tune a thing or two. We took our regular Sunday naps then
went to church in the evening for a Christmas song service. I was
asked to have children's meeting so Carolina & I did "Davey's First
Christmas" with some commentary. |
The snack afterward. |
Ina Sue got up at 5:30 to get an early start
on the laundry Monday. I got up soon after and made us
breakfast then Carolina & I headed off to school & work. Ina Sue
was surprised and thrilled when Nelson Hochstetler's boys showed up and
unexpectedly started cleaning the leaves off of our yard. I had
been very disappointed not to be able to get the place cleaned up on
Saturday, but I certainly did not expect them to show up and do the work
for me... They worked hard nearly all day and have the place
looking so much better. They are hard working guys! Ina Sue
finished up the laundry then made us parmesan catfish, oven fries &
green beans for supper. After supper we worked together picking
out and candying nuts for my customers, employees & service folks.
We candied four batch of nuts and made up about 17 bags to give out. |
Carolina's little gingerbread house from school |
Carolina Sue had a half day of school on
Tuesday. Some of the church ladies served hot brunch at school
this morning. Ina Sue did the ironing and some sewing.
Nelson's boys came back to finish up the lawn project. What a
wonderful feeling to have that all done! In the evening we went
Christmas caroling in Barnwell with our small group and two other
groups. We had a beautiful evening for caroling and ended up at
the school for the snack. I headed off to work on Wednesday
without Carolina Sue. She is starting a nearly two week Christmas
vacation. Ina Sue packed up the children later in the morning and
took them up to the town square to pick up a few more pecans.
After they got back home the children spent time playing on the back
deck with Carolina Sue's new sidewalk chalk. Ina Sue fixed us a
Reuben loaf and a salad for supper. In the evening we played with
the children until they went to bed then I worked on some of these
pages. |
Our Christmas supper. |
I left at 5:45 Thursday morning to
head to Hartwell. I picked up Nevin in Augusta and we made it up
to the Hartwell center by a little after 9:00. My Dad had an
unfortunate accident with the 25-pair buried telephone cable that runs
between Fellowship Hall & the boys dorms. So, Nevin and I spent
the first while toning out the pairs and trying to patch enough of them
to hook up the bells, intercoms & telephones for Bible School.
After we got that done we had to spend several hours running down bad
pairs and getting all the others locations working and tested. We
also ran a network cable over to Fellowship Hall so that the professors
there could have internet access. |
Claudia opens her gift. |
Mom fed us a wonderful lunch of pork &
saurkraut, beans, potatoes, and other goodies I don't remember...
We got back to work and by the time we got everything hooked up and
tested it was about 7:30. We headed home and I dropped Nevin off
then made the mistake of going into Walmart for some quick grocery
shopping. I hate that place! I stood in line for over
45 minutes before I finally got on the road. Made it back to Govan
around 11:20. Meanwhile at home, Ina Sue spent her day sewing her
new dress and taking care of the children. She also made a batch
of French bread. |
I got a "barrel of combs" :) |
Friday was Christmas Eve. I went
in to work in the morning but we shut down the shop at 1:00. Ina
Sue spent the morning cleaning and cooking. After I got home we
just had a restful afternoon & evening. Ina Sue made us
horseradish meatballs, stuffed potates, zipper peas, and peanut butter
pie for our supper. After supper we played games together and Ina
Sue got her new china press all cleaned and ready to be filled. |
Ina Sue works at stuffing her new china press. |
We had a wonderful Christmas Day 2011 at home
here with our own little family on Saturday. Ina Sue fixed
us egg muffins for breakfast. We gave our children their little
gifts. Carolina Sue got a pair of 2nd hand roller blades and
Landon got a (new for him) bicycle. Savannah got some little
garden tools. We took a long walk in the afternoon to let the
children try out their roller blades & bicycle. In the later
afternoon Ina Sue and Carolina went over to Carl's and picked up some
more pecans. Marcia's dad Lynford Miller actually had already
picked up a bunch of them for us. I stayed home and made pizza for
our supper. I also made us a lemon blueberry trifle for our dinner
tomorrow. We had a restful evening with reading books and games.
I studied for the Sunday school lesson tomorrow. A number of men
from church are scheduled to meet with Daryl each Sunday for sunday
school. I am scheduled for tomorrow. Ina Sue spent much of
the evening putting dishes in her new china press. |