Annual trip

Saturday we took our annual outing to Mike’s Farm on the other side of Jacksonville. We go every year around Lee’s birthday. After the hayride we go and have dinner. We had to stand in line for tickets for almost an hour, and we got there at 5:00. They don’t start running until it is dark. The ride takes about half of an hour. It is well worth the cost. It was a little cool that night.

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On leave

Had today off. I also have tomorrow off, I am burning up some leave before the end of the year or I will lose it. You can only carry over so many hours to the next year. If you don’t use it, you lose it. It was pretty nice today. We have been getting rain every few days. I have been working alot of overtime the last few weeks.  I worked 10 hour days this week and last Saturday. By taking today and tomorrow off I will get out of working this Saturday. The whole family are going to Mike’s Farm this Saturday to see the Christmas light display. It is an annual outing we take every year. Our granddaughter Charlottes birthday is Monday and Lees is Tuesday. I can’t believe Christmas is only 2 weeks away. Where has the year gone? We hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.   

Tiring day

It was tough going back to work today. 4:30 came awful early this morning. We were short handed today. We still had a lot of people on leave today. They will all be back tomorrow. It looks like our overtime will continue until around March or April. My knees and elbows are sore tonight from being on them almost all day. I had to finish the work I was doing last week. Thank goodness I got it done. Tomorrow is December, where has this year gone? The big buildup for Christmas really ramps up.

Vacation over

Today was the last day of my mini vacation. Don’t mind going to work tomorrow but not looking forward to getting so early in the morning. It has been nice sleeping in the last five days. Didn’t play golf today but got stuff done around the house. Mowed the front yard and hung the icicle lights. Toni, Mary and Mike (Mary’s boyfriend) raked the leaves, redid the extra driveway and put up the Christmas blow ups. They also cleaned out the garage and took the stuff to the dump. I will take some pictures and put them in a future blog.

Family day

Well, I didn’t get the outside lights or blow ups up. It was a little cool today. Toni, Lee and Mary went and got their nails done today. While they were gone I took care of the turkey. We had our Thanksgiving dinner today. We managed to get everything done and ate in time for the girls to go to a girls gathering with Travis’s family. They got the leftovers put up before they left. I did the dishes and now I am relaxing and watching TV. Watched football most of the day. I am going to try and play golf tomorrow with Will. It is suppose to be a little warmer and sunny. Go chance we will get to play.

Black Friday

Well, the girls got up early this morning and hit the road to go shopping. They were there when the doors opened. I slept in until about 7:00. Their planning session last night worked out well. They were back home a little after 8:00. They even took Mary to work. They got everything they went for. We met Travis and Ginnie at Kountry Kitchen for breakfast. When we got home I cleaned the turkey fryer pot. They went and picked Mary up from work and went shopping again. While they were gone I put the turkey cooker up and got the Christmas stuff out.

When they got home Lee helped me put up the Christmas tree. Now they just need to decorate it. Tomorrow I get to put up the outside lights and blow ups.  It is only suppose to be in the lower 50’s tomorrow just like today. It was so nice yesterday. It was in the mid 60’s. It always seems to be cold the day after Thanksgiving when all the work has to be done. I will wait until the afternoon to do the work tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving

It was a pretty good day today. I got up and fried the turkey after Toni went and got a new tank of gas. We had a very nice dinner at Travis’s aunts house. We hope that everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. We got home around 3:30 and didn’t do much else.  Toni and Lee did a little shopping. Now they are sitting at the kitchen table plotting their shopping plans for in the morning. After they are done, we are all going out to breakfast. Talked to my sister in Phoenix for over an hour tonight. It had been awhile since we last talked. It would be nice if we could all be closer together so we could see each other more often. That is wishful thinking and the phone will have to do.