Friday Happenings

One of main things that happened today was that the honeycomb shades got hung in the sunporch.  They arrived a couple of weeks ago and we had been waiting for Nathan to hang them.  He had to put off this job just a bit as he burned his hand and arm in one of his juggling programs after juggling flaming torches.  He has a fireproof cloth on the stage when he juggles that he wraps the torches in so they go out.  Unfortunately this time some of the fuel must have gotten on the cloth and it ignited when he was attempting to put the torches out.  He had to head down the church aisle with it burning to keep from something catching on fire in the church.   He said that he was sure that someone would oopen the door for him!  He got 2nd and 3rd degree burns on his right hand and lower arm.  He made one trip to his doctor and was given some medicine.  But in the end he had to go to a wound care facility here in town to get them finally to heal up.  He still has to be careful not to hit his hand on things and scrape it...his arm is more protected from bumps.  But he was able to get the shades up today.  We are glad to have them up as some pretty frigid temperatures are heading our way.  We are pleased with them.  We've never had these windows covered in the 35 years that we have lived in this house.

Woody headed off in the cold this morning to do our weekly grocery shopping.  I made a trip outside to experience the cold after he got home, when I brought the groceries in the house.  He later headed off to run errands with his friend and was gone several more hours.

I have done a little of this and a little of that throughout the day.  I put groceries away, I moved furniture around getting the living room ready for the Christmas tree.  I have put a few more Christmas around the house...so slowly but surely the decorating is getting done.  I had to remove things from the sunporch.  After Nathan got the shades hung, then I dust mopped and then mopped the floor in that room and in the laundry room.  I made cookies that Woody can eat.  So our Christmas cookie jar now has a purpose...other than just looking cute in the corner!  I put part of the cookies in the cookie jar and the other part in the freezer so we can fill the cookie jar again.  I kept an eye on a couple of cheesecakes that Abigail baked in our oven.  She was baking multiples so needed our oven as well as theirs.  (She likes the way our oven cooks over theirs...she's wishing that they would get a new oven!)  After all the baking I decided that the kitchen also needed to be mopped so did that.

It just seems like the day has gone by too quickly...there is still more that I needed to accomplish...but at least I did get some things done.  It's beginning to look a little more like Christmas, but still not there yet!