Well, it's sunny here, but still a tad cool. No snow I would hope. Meanwhile DDIL-A up home continues to hope for lots of snow so they can maybe catch up. DS-A had a "manager" who took them for many thousand dollars (like in well over $30 or $40k) last year. It put them in a terrible position of recovery. Uh, yes, he's no longer with them -he was fired last year. A difficult situation since he's often where we all are. We are civil but that's about it -it's hard for us but forgiving is our nature.
Forgiveness vs forgetfulness. Ds actually had to buy 2 more loaders this year to comply with a couple of his contracts -most likely apartment complexes. He also had to install water and bathroom at his shop in the village. So it's been an expensive year.
We gave dh one job to do this morning. He was meeting the men from church at 7:30 for breakfast. From there he was going to church to install some locks. We gave him ornaments to hang on our Love Gift tree. I asked him about 6:45 if he had them -he did not but then did. Between our bedroom & the entryway he sat them down to pick up the rest of a cookie plate (he might starve between here and G olden C oral you know). He left the ornaments. Arggghhhh! That means we either have to go back up there -an hour round trip! Or we have to go to church extra early tomorrow to get them hung. We did give him a chance to redeem himself however. DD needed some more baking supplies so called him and asked him to stop on the way home to pick them up: flour, sugar, brown sugar, regular bottle of coke and molasses. Gave him specific amounts because I know HIM! If 1 is good then "2 or 3 would be even better." And by next Christmas they would be stale or worse.
Ta-Da! Put the remainder of our Christmas cards out in the mailbox this morning. Do have a couple awaiting checks that will probably go in boxes of cookies that we'll send up home. DD wants to finish baking today so we can get them sent out by mid-week at the latest. Oh! really by Monday.