We have planned the menu and will shop tomorrow. No goody is left behind. Charles has been working all day and only took time to drive to the post office for mail and get gas for the car. Yesterday I used the quiet time to put together a cabinet for the back screened-in porch. It looks nice but still needs the handles put in place. All the directions are in three languages and even English is 'fasten A to Aa, etc'
I needed to use the big packing box from the cabinet for the decorations at our Sunday School Christmas party, and we have laid the Christmas party decorations out on the dinning room table and need the space for Thanksgiving.
This year for Christmas we will focus on missions. Our choice was Java. The world is in such turmoil and we wish the spirt of Christmas for everyone.
Bradferd said he was going to cook an apple pie like his mom. I asked him if he had the recipe and he said, "my mom is the recipe". She makes great apple pies. I gave him one of his great grandma's cook books and wrote her name in the front. She was a wonderful cook and pies were her speciality, and what she made for her church at every occasion. Like most older great cooks, she didn't use recipes much. Once when she gave me her favorite pickle recipe, I read, "make a brine strong enough to float an egg". I had to call her to get an explanation on what brine was and did I break the egg on top of the water. It's an old family story now.
Holidays happen too fast and we will have to put Christmas away until after Thanksgiving time; eating, football, and thankfulness. Have a good day everyone.
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