Well Sunday saw us with a light rain which lasted most of the morning. We had our overnight house guests and they too headed out around 8:30 for their Catholic Church service as we too left for BridgePoint. We were working the first service as hallway greeters and Nancy was working the Christmas Shoe Box area.
I started the morning with my usual 6'ish rollout but since we had guests and I wasn't able to get to my laptop to do this ramble which I later in the afternoon posted. I did my quiet time out in the kitchen but the views where nothing like the cabin views out the back windows. One thing I don't miss it all of the walking up and down the yards but you would have thought that would have helped to keep the weight off; I think the food tastes so good there with the delicious water and the clean air which keeps your appetite wetted, oh well I've managed to drop a couple pounds the first week despite the two family dinners both of which occurred late in the evening. The five days of pickle ball last week helped as did the gardening and yard work.
We met up with neighbors and friends Dan and Carol after church for a noon meal at Miller's Ale House which is just down the road from us. That held me the rest of the day until Nancy got home around 8'ish from GG's house when I popped some corn so she could take her pill. She along with Eric, Arianne, Betsy and Gus sorted through GG's belonging to see which of her things were going to Michigan before they put the house on the market for resale. They also took a load to the Goodwill as well as pitched several bags of junk. I stayed away as it was basically a family sibling encounter. I did sit and watch some of the NFL but not wholeheartedly. I noticed where the shows were heavy on featuring the military and veterans which was just after a day of honoring our veterans but I think the the kneeling during the anthem has hurt their credibility and their pocketbooks and now they are trying to make amends. There were lots of empty seats with some of the games I watched.
The Bucs won but looked lousy against another inept team from New York. I looked at it sparingly while reading but it was on in the back ground. I do love the shows from Alaska with the families who live there. It was quite interesting to know there are shrimp in those cold waters and the relocating of a small herd of buffalo via a boat. Wow, that was quite the ordeal with the use of a helicopter to round them up and heard them into a pen. The Kilchner Families are quite the pioneers and very resourceful and at times I wonder how that got all of these modern modes of transportation and equipment up to the frontier. Some of these are quite expensive to own and operate as they produce nothing to sell. I know it's TV revenues and their daily living experiences which sells and affords them a somewhat comfortable existence; but they are still at the mercy of the weather, wild animals and distances from civilization(malls, shopping, doctors, etc). I personally would live as they do in a minute, LATER
