"The Turkey's Not Going To Eat Itself"

I've never claimed to be  Martha Stewart (which is probably 'a good thing' after her recent Salmonella episode) but I think the candy I made yesterday turned out nicely. 

 

I made Peanut Butter Balls, Chocolate Covered Mints and some sort of Peanut-Marshallow confection while I roasted a 24 pound turkey for the Community Band post-concert party.  

And then the snow came! 

We think we've had about 6 inches so far - two or so overnight, another 2 from 8am until 10am and then a couple more since then and it continues. 

It is beautiful but unfortunately the concert is cancelled. 

 

 

The party is still on (see previous statement about 24 pounds of turkey) so stop in for a sandwich and some holiday cheer. 

 

Preparations, Sunday version

 

We got the Christmas tree in the door, down the stairs and straight in the stand.  These tasks were mostly Doug's doing.  Last night, I decorated the tree.  We think this is the biggest tree.  Our evidence is that it fills up "the Christmas tree space" more than usual years AND I had to get more lights.   

 

 

 

There was also preparation at church.  I played during the offering with DeeAnn.  It went well at both services. 

 

 

We have been asked to take a bunch of pictures with us to Tanzania so Doug slyly took some pictures in church today.  I always wonder what the non-preaching pastors are thinking about when they are listening. 

 

 

A good crowd at the 9:45 service.  I got to sit with one of my favorite teenagers, Laura Dill. 

 

 

Classic Doug picture

 

 

Exchange students will be happy to know that this year's tree will have a star.  After several tries, purchases and returns over several years, I finally found a star that will stay up.  The solution was a trip to Lowes and a star with velcro. 

 

 

Light a Torch for Me Mr. S

 

On Monday last week I cooked up a turkey breast the size of a toaster for our Cyber Monday Turkey Dinner.  I will admit that we used a couple of the left over side dishes from Carla's Thanksgiving Day Feast.

 

 

Our neighbors across the street have added some more holiday cheer to their decorations this year.  That's a Mr. S. Claus riding a polar bear near the yellow M and M and a photo of Jesus in the window.  The Santa is holding a lantern that lights up.

 

 

We visited the Lyon's Club tree sale today after a nice pub lunch at The Bulldog in downtown St. Paul.

 

 

 We got a 7 footer and ran into the Kandt family who run the funeral home near the high school and are members of our church.  Sue ran into Mr. Kandt earlier in the day at her flute rehearsal at church where Mr. Kandt was working a funeral.  Small world or at least a small town.  I was going to post some more photos but the blog / the internet are just too slow today.

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Sue is playing in church both services tomorrow and I'll be playing a concert at 4pm at The Church of St. Patrick in Inver Grove.  Come one and come all - Santa will light a torch for you.

 

The lazy boy's view from the Lazy Boy

Milhaud supervises Christmas decorating

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