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Its Almost Time For Family Christmas

Thursday, December 21, 2017

It was a cloudy to partly sunny day with mild temperatures for this time of year. It’s actually looking much better with lows only at or slightly below freezing for the next week. We do have more rain for tomorrow and Saturday. And it doesn’t look like we will have a white Christmas. Oh, well.

This morning we had to go back to Cullman for some tests. Trying to get all this done before the first of the year. Think there are two more doctor appointments next week and we will be done. We made hopefully our last trip to the stores and then back home and final preparation for the family to arrive. So thankful for safe travel for everyone. We have been cooking the soup and chili for tomorrow and looking forward to celebrating Christmas tomorrow with the Armstrong side of the family. Lots of good visiting this weekend.

A Rainy Drive

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

We were up early today to check the radar because we were scheduled to head to Tuscaloosa to see Mama Ruby. Last night the prognosticators were predicting rain with possible damaging storms. It rained most of the night and continued to rain this morning. However, the system was downgraded over night and the probability of damaging storms was much less. So, based on the movement we decided to wait until about 8:15 to depart. It rained really hard for about the first 30-40 minutes but the remainder of the drive was just cloudy. About lunch time we actually saw a little sunshine.

We visited with Mama Ruby, took care of a lot of little things for her, had lunch with her and then took her to the beauty shop. Anne also got a hair cut. She really doesn’t like to have to get her hair cut when we are out of town so hopefully this will last until we return in February. On the way home we stopped at Aldi and Publix for some groceries – getting ready for the Christmas weekend. That’s it for today. Please pray for safe travel for everyone traveling this holiday weekend.

An Early Christmas Splurge

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Yesterday was a foggy, cloudy day with nothing blog-worthy to talk about – so we didn’t. We just worked around the house and handled some business for the LOLs.

Today was a rainy, cloudy, foggy, yucky day. As is usual for Alabama winters, the temperature goes up and we get rain. Stops raining and the temperature drops. The high was in the 60s today. We had a doctor’s appointment in Cullman today and unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the office is one block from The Duchess Bakery. And we can never go there and not get their Bizmarks because rather than squeeze some filling into the pastry, they slice it open and fill it with both a layer of white cream and and a layer of custard filling and then ice with chocolate. So, we didn’t have a choice. Duchess is one of the best, if not the best bakery in the state of Alabama. Of course, we had to have a Christmas cookie. They are so good. Today was a real Christmas splurge. The scale will not be happy in the morning. We really need to behave the next two days because Friday is the Armstrong Christmas get together.

We know this is a RVing blog and we will be getting back to RVing soon, but for the next week we will be enjoying family time and completing our doctors visits and family business.

Plans – HA!

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Today was a gray, rainy day. The weather forecast is for more of the same. And also trending colder and wetter for the next 7 days. The weather man said we would have a couple for dry days, but they would be cold and that sunshine was not going to be very common. Oh, well. It’s winter. We were hoping to un-winterize FRED for Christmas and not have to re-winterize before heading south January 1^st, but it’s looking like we may not be un-winterizing at all until we head south. Yuk!!

We had lunch all ready and left for church at 8:00 this morning and just happened to notice as we were driving by Aunt Helen’s that there was no Visiting Angel car there. We swung around and pulled into the driveway and garage door was still down. Not a good sign. We let ourselves in and all the lights were still out and everyone was still in bed. No Angel anywhere in sight. Aunt Helen was awake but totally oblivious to the day or time. Juno was still sound asleep. We called the supervisor and of course got voice mail. So much for our plans to attend the Christmas music service this morning. We began getting the ladies up and dressed and fed. We did get a call back from the supervisor who didn’t know why there was no one on the job. She called back later and said someone was on the way, but by then Helen was dressed, fed and chilling in her recliner and Juno was up doing her morning devotion. We couldn’t get to church anyway by then so we just told her to forget it, we would handle everything. We got Juno’s toast and Boost when she was ready and got the ladies on the way to church right on time. We then went back home, watched the video stream of our 11:00 service (where the Christmas music was done last week), and finished up lunch. Oh well, we turned on Christmas music and got to hear Barry’s sermon anyway.

It was such a damp, gray day, after cleaning up after lunch at Helen’s, we came home a took a nap and watched another Christmas movie. Hope you all had a wonderful Sunday.