Well, maybe it was 6:30. Potatoes peeled. Card table and chairs out of the closet and table clothes on. I brined the turkeys. Pretty good. Maybe a little salty. Caitlan made roasted broccoli and cauliflower, butternut squash ice cream pie with gingersnap crust and her home-cooked pumpkin pie. Also a spicy pumpkin buttered rum drink […]

Tonight we went to the Valley for Clan Christmas. Everyone arrived around 6 p.m. Unfortunately Bubba was on the road, so he was late, and Hayley had a ballgame so the Hellyers were not there. We fixed stockings for the kids under 18. This year we hng them on the dining room chairs. Then Rita […]

Stayed over at Rachel’s again last night. Drew let me in since I was late. Rachel gets up at like 3:30 or some ungodly hour so she was already asleep. Drew looks so much like Nicholas, it’s uncanny. This time I slept in the loft. It was neat up there. Then I worked all […]

I got into Rachel’s late last night to spend the night. I slept in Drew’s room since he was staying with his dad. Rachel and Frank live close to Hamburg Place where I work and since I had to work late on Sat. and early on Sun., it was convenient to stay there. She was […]