Yahoo...it's Friday

Woo...This week has been a duzzy...and I'm not surprised.  Tues. Wed. Thurs. and today I've been at church for a number of reasons.  Tues. Wed.  Got all the Advent decorating done.  What a job but little by little it all got finished up.  There are so many corners not including the sanctuary.  But we have great bones to build on in that space.   My two favorite helpers came in Wed. to do ladder stuff.  Wed. eve was bell practice.  Thursday was Bread and Bowl and such a nice group of neighbor folks and more came to eat.  I really enjoy them and they are most appreciative of good food and a great space to eat with friends.  And then it was on to Choir practice.  Today I picked up the poinsettia to take to church.  We are using two big ones each Sunday.  I would prefer not to use any but they do make good Altar fillers.  Some churches use many many pots...Such a waste in my brain.  We have 4 blue banners,two on each side of the sanctuary, two huge wreaths with blue ribbon, flowers etc.  and huge blue/pink/white advent candles with some greens, pine cones and blue hydrangea on the altar but not much.  Just a touch.  Next Sunday we'll add the Root of Jesse Tapestry to the pulpit.  Oops...almost forgot. I made another frontal cloth in Duke Blue for the Communion Table.  That was a Monday night Tuesday thing    Good grief...no wonder I'm ready to sit for a while.  My "dogs" were screaming with all the walking that went on this week.  Much better today.  Might need to get new shoes. 

Doug continues to have mouth problems concerning extractions but he says it's getting better.  I made great potato soup for tonight.  Looking forward to SUPPER.   He's loosing weight which is not bothering him at all.  He just laughs about it.  He says he's not hungry.  I'm always hungry.  Crazy!

Finished putting the binding on a quilt this afternoon.  It's just great sitting around for a spell.  No hurry to go anywhere for a change.  Nothing much planned for tomorrow as well.  That's a huge Yahoo.  Don't know if I'll put up a tree this year.  I've got to think about it and maybe next week I'll be in the mood.  Christmas comes anyways.  Tree or no tree.  Another great week just passed. 

Thanksgiving in Georgia

Another fun filled week with the Russell brothers...All three of the elders!  Great talk, great food, great walks in the leaves and lots of time playing with legos.  It was a great memory week.  Doug had oral surgery the Monday before we left and was miserable for most of the time.  Pain pills and more helped a bit but he has lost 15 lbs since that Monday.  I'm feeling sorry for the guy.  I drove both ways.  I love that cruise control.  9 hr.s and 30 minutes got us home.  We stopped at a motel on the way down and Jared and Kimmy stopped also with us.  First motel stay for the little boys.  Such a good time was had.  Arrived home around 4:45 last night.  Ate a bit, unpacked and found that the material I needed for church arrived so I started to sew.  Drank coffee and just relaxed but didn't sleep till 1:15.  Uck.  and woke up at 5 am.  What a bummer but I probably caused it all to happen.  Today I finished the sewing project and took it to church and then began getting out all the Advent decorations.  More work tomorrow with help.  Yahoo.  It all needs to be in place for Sunday.  Leap Year has it's advantages.  There is always one Sunday between Thanksgiving and Advent.  Such a help with the Georgia trip.  Tomorrow is more work and by the end of the week all should be in place.  Noah came today for a couple of hours.  What a fun guy. 

Sunday evening

Woo...the busy week is gone.  At least that's my hope.  Typical Sunday sort of out of bed and on the road to church by 6:45.  That's the usual time.  Around 7 we arrive at church and start to get the hospitality room set up.  It takes at least 45 minutes with Larry, Waldene, Ann, Dave and Doug and I working.  Some of these folks come around 7:30.  So around 8 we're finished and church and community folks start to arrive.  This morning both of the handbell groups played for church.  Fun, fun but it really keeps one's brain on the up and up.  Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't.  Found a person to fill a communion, lay reader position.  Woo...that was an exciting find.  I'm chairing the Worship Commission and I think all the leadership positions are filled.  Tomorrow Noah is coming for the morning, then there are a few things that need to be finished before we leave for Georgia on Tuesday.  Doug is having more dental work done in the afternoon.   It's Thanksgiving with the Russell brothers again as well as JB's Michigan family.  It will be busy but the days will not be so packed with stuff.  Yahoo.  I'm taking my sewing machine to mess with as well as turkey and a few more food items. We should be back home on Monday after Thanksgiving just in time to Advent decorate at church. 

This afternoon Doug and I went to Andrew's 6th birthday party.  He is such a grown up little guy.  School is doing him a lot of good.    He is really interested in reading and beginning to figure out words. 

It's crazy at this house.

I don't know where to start but it seems like a barn burner is going on.  I need Georgia on my mind...not all this other crazy stuff.  Today...started with a refrigerator delivery call at 7 am...yup...7 am.  By 7:15, the truck was at the house and the old 35 year old refrigerator is gone and the new one is in the kitchen.  Well, it's B and B soup kitchen morning so the ref. came and I left with stuff just stuffed in a big container sitting in the refrigerator waiting for the afternoon to get all the ref. pieces in place. .  Came home from B and B and read a note that Doug was at Immediate Care.  He has a horrible fainfully looking foot  of two days and the diagnoses is Gout!!!  Woo...he's on pain meds. and will probably see Dr. Goens soon.  I stayed at Immediate Care with Doug and then on to see Dr. Gones for a follow up concerning some problems with B Pressure med.  Got that settled and then back home...Need to pick up new med.  At 3:30 the ref. is looking ok.  Pancakes for supper and then on to church choir practice tonight.  Bushed already.  \

\That comes after Wed. when I met with two other guys at church all morning doing Christmas Wreaths for church which will go up the week of Nov. 25th.  We did a bell set up before we left church.  Waited for the Plummer for most of the afternoon.  It's the third call for a plugged up drain that helps the softner to work.  Hope it works this time and then on to Greggs to buy refrigerator.  Looked one other time so didn't need to spend to much time looking this time but bought something completely different than I had thought.  And...surprise, surprise...Mary K and Phil were there at the same time looking at washing machines. Then finished that just in time to head to bells.  Woo...that was a crazy day as well. 

Tues. wasn't much better but I did have fun with both Andrew and Noah for part of the day.  Andrew had pink eye so he was home from school.  Kat did some volunteering at school.  That was a fun day.  Such nice grandsons.  I told Andrew I had horrible granddaughters...he wanted to know their names.  Well, we had a good laugh. 

So that's been Tues, Wed. and Thursday...I can't remember back more than three days.  Thank goodness.  What a blessing. 

OOPS.  Because I had the refrigerator on my mind...I needed to clean the kitchen so Monday and Tuesday also...I cleaned out the kitchen cabinets of ALL the stuff I didn't use.  That includes a wedding present of a lazy susan of 45 years in my cabinets among other things.  Then I took all the cabinet handles off and scrubbed them till they looked like new...oiled the cabinets...cleaned the stove...cleaned behind the refrigerator...Uck...Uck...Enough said. 

Oh, yes...Maybe on Sat. I bought the turkey for Georgia.  But...Now I need to start making a list of things to get together for the Georgia trip.  Woo...Next Tuesday we will be out of here for almost a week.  Should be nice.  Then it's decorating the church when we come back.  We are keeping it simple this year.  Ha!  My two good friends...Alan and Don will make it work for me. 

8 days later and still cloudy!

It's Wed and I'm at church at the front desk.  All is quiet here.  I did a couple of fall arrangements here this morning.  Found lots of bittersweet near SEM's house and some great big ornamental gourds and pulled some stuff together.  So...we have a season change.  Need to change some banners as well.  Moving a trunk on to Eldoret this afternoon.  Two down 10 to go.  bummer.  But two are gone!  Shopped for fabric yesterday for the communion alter.  woo...that was a chore finding fabric that matches what we.  Bells tonight, soup kitchen tomorrow, choir tomorrow evening and then the weekend of bazaar at Sec. Presb. Church.  Should be interesting setting up on Friday morning. That continues for most of Sat.