Aunties Valorie and Tara were there working on homemade Christmas cards. When they weren't paperworking they were crocheting dishcloths. Aunt Valorie plans to open a craft store in the little barn on her property. She also plans to teach lessons in a variety of crafts.
If you have any little crafty objects you would like to sell, she is willing to take them in to her shop and put them on display.
Nellie was there and was busy knitting a sweater for a newborn girl she knows. She used a thick soft chenille yarn in pastels and white. When it was done it looked so soft and cuddly you just wanted to squeeze it tight.
Nellie has been taking monster antibiotics for the H.pylori bacteria that has given her stomach ulcers. Her 90 year old father is causing her a great deal of anxiety. She'll come home from work to find his tractor with its nose half up a tree trunk or the back end in the trout pond.
He'll extricate it and get it into another predicament the next day. She is in constant fear of what she may come home to one day.
There was plenty of good food as usual. Granpa rigged up a homemade chicken rotisserie for slow roasting his homegrown chickens over the fire pit.
His garden is huge. The corn stalks must be over 10 feet tall. He rigged an electric fence around the corn to keep the varmints out. It's a bare wire poked into the outlet of an extension cord! Mmmm... electric fried racoon.
Grandma's hand is still healing from the surgery so she has not done any sewing lately. She goes to therapy 2 times a week where they stretch it and press it until it hurts. The scars are in three places, the palm and two on the finger. They are not neat scars either, they are all jaggedy. It'll be a while before she has full use of it again.
Randy's toenail is still hanging on by a teensy bit of skin. He protects it with a bandaid. You can see the new nail growning underneath. It's grown out about half way.
We don't see Christina anymore. She gets up about when I go to bed and comes home just as I'm leaving for work. I'll have to settle with reading about her in her blog.
Until next time
Cec
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