Making my list and checking it twice. Christmas gatherings are spread over several weeks and lists are mandatory for me as to what food is needed to be prepared for each location. No longer do I depend on the memory for that. These last years, I do enjoy the days right before Christmas to be low key and relaxed. When we were both working the W-2 Form jobs, that thought was far in the distance. For Dennis and me that time is here and we really have slowed down. We comment to each other often, how much we like it.
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Changes are tough. I knew I needed new lenses this fall. Going for six years without a change in eye glasses was pressing my luck. What I didn’t count on was needing to go back for the third time to have them adjusted to sit upon the noggin correctly. Bi-focal lenses sitting askew gives a whole new meaning for the appreciation of walking straight and reading more than one line at a time in printed materials. Yes, yes, I realize that perhaps it is my ears that need adjusting, but this is what I have to work with and they knew this when the pair of glasses were sold to me.
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We did catch the mailman today to send out several cards with letters inside to those who most likely don’t receive much mail in their health care facilities. My biggest disappointment is getting a Christmas card in the mail from farther away friends and family and lo and behold there is just the signature of the sender.
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It Is The Season to Remember
The Santa Prayer
Lord, you know You’re the reason for this season.
I take pleasure in this season,
But I don’t want to take Your place,
But just reflect Your wondrous grace.
And when they begin to open gifts for
Which they have been hoping,
May they give You all the glory for
You’re the One True Christmas Story.
author unknown
A message too often forgotten amidst the commotion.
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Noreen
53 degrees right up 6:00 p.m. this evening. A quiet Sunday for the pair here on Stauffer Avenue.
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Today the sun came out for a short time and it was heavenly. We had a quiet day on Stauffer Avenue, and sometimes that is just what is needed. The sewing room is shut down for a bit of cleaning after Oliver’s quilt was finished. This evening Dennis and I were each on our own for supper. I can tell you, the herring I had was very tasty. Dennis enjoyed butter and jelly on some very fresh pull apart buns. Everybody on Stauffer Avenue is happy.
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Noreen
Today, after a good stint of stretching and twisting at the Super 8 pool, I came home and felt like I could have turned the world upside down. I spent a bit of time in the kitchen as well as baking out some of the remaining acorn squash. It was not a good growing season of weather combined with temperatures for the squash and watermelon. The squash were very small and that is showing in the time that they will keep in to the early winter. It made for a good addition to the cod that we had for supper. A little bit of left over squash will fill another supper menu a few days up the road.
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Hubby Dennis, knowing the day was a bit rough, brought home Pizza Hut Pizza. What a treat. Half taco and half all meat. What brought about the rough day? Could have been the really cloudy damp weather to make the arthritis buck or the fact, that on the last process of Oliver’s quilt, which was hemming the remaining half, I ran out of thread and have no more of that color. More of the actual spool than the yardage of thread that used to be on a spool. I am going to have to council with my partner Dennis, as to how we punt through this. No way will this call for a trip out of town for stitching 140 inches of hem.
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Could the day have been any grayer or darker?
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Today we had to be happy with the 34 degrees. The sun just couldn’t break through, so I had to make my own bright environment, via the fluorescent lights in my sewing room.