Christmas is Near
The older I become, the faster Christmas sneaks up on me. I remain totally committed to enjoy every Christmas song. Even when the radio is not on, I am humming to myself. Today, Christmas Eve Day is in seven days. My days now are quite different from when Kevin and Carrie had Christmas church programs on Christmas Eve. I often think I should prepare two brown paper bags loaded with apples, oranges, nuts, candy and have them sitting on our table on Christmas Eve. It would be exactly as were passed out decades ago when all the children filed out of the church proper after their program. The church elders did a great job. After the participants of the program were out, the elders went through the entire church giving out bags to children from infant to high schoolers. Hmm. Memories!
Saturday work is instilled in my bones. Guess what . . . it has rubbed off onto Dennis! We have a rather large refractory Oak table. It has pullout leaves on each end allowing for up to eight to sit around it comfortably. No one likes someone else’s elbow to hit their arm when there is a fork of mashed potatoes ready to find its target. Recently, we realized there was a buildup of Murphy’s wipes: aka, wax on the table top.
Today while I was working in the kitchen and bathroom, Dennis was armed with a bottle of Formby’s furniture cleaner. His strong 18 wheeler days of chicken loading arms make mine pale in comparison. Top to bottom, from end to end the table got a fantastic cleaning. We thought back when we had purchased the table and four chairs at a garage sale in Butterfield for $25.00. We had a fellow in town replace the top with a new sheet of quarter-sawn oak. Perhaps a bit too large for our home, but we do use it every day and enjoy it.
The air is damp with stray snow flakes flying intermittently.
Both of us are quite pleased with ourselves after a day of due diligence. We are off the clock for the remaining hours of this Saturday. Shh! We are not as yet discussing supper options. No elderly people will go to bed hungry during the interim.