Awake: 6:00am Temp 39 Light rain Overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
@ 10:00am, I call Al’s firewood service about “more wood.” He says: “come
& get it!” I make a post office pick up, a trash drop off & then a
firewood fill up. When returning to our bus, Kathy is talking with my
Sister Corinne in Maryland. I make my apologies & wish her a “Merry
Christmas.” With our schedule of visiting our kids @ the Footes daily,
our timing for calling her was tough.
Drive to Indiana arriving @ 12:25pm. Kids are all having lunch now which
is good & this was the plan. Another plan I had in mind today was to give
Kevin a lesson in soldering copper tubing so I take 20 min out of my busy
schedule to do that.
Next, using the Foote 1984 Diesel Ford van, all of us except the Footes
motor close to the town of Alverda (25 min) & visit my cousins Florentz &
Anna. It’s been nearly 10 yrs since our boys have seen F & A. When we
arrive, both F & A are busy setting up a snack tray & getting out wine
glasses & the home made wine. Then we are led into their new addition
family room where we sit & talk for awhile……which seemed like a long time.
It was like Florentz would mention he was going to serve wine & then he
would distract us & do something else. Finally we are led back into the
kitchen…….just as he was beginning to pour his Dandelion wine, the Ken &
Theresa family arrive minus the 2 eldest daughters. Our family probably
spent more time with the Ken & Theresa kids than any of the other Florentz
& Anna offspring. Ken’s sister Joyce also came with them. We all stayed in
their country kitchen & munched on healthy snacks & drank some of
Florentz’s good homemade wine. Zack, our more refined connoisseur of fine
wines, really enjoyed the Dandelion over the mixed 1997 bottle of Concord
grape. The bottle from their son Jake was equally as good as the Dandelion
but I don't remember what he called it. Our boys also enjoyed Florentz &
his poems + humor & we all certainly enjoyed seeing Ken & Theresa & their
2 youngest children, Veronica & Zane, again. Back to the Footes @ 5:25pm.
We arrived too late to eat dinner with the Footes & since we had snacked
pretty heavily over @ F & A’s, we elected to eat later after our appetite
returned.
7:30 dinner: Spaghetti with meatballs & Kathy’s homemade coleslaw.
High temp: Low 40’s Lights out: 10:40pm
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