Well Monday found us waking up in Brandon at Bobby and Katie's house. The grand kiddos were involved in a Christmas program at Bell Shoals Academy where they attend school and there was one part where at the end of the program all of the siblings sang together on stage. Once again the program was first class with hundreds of elementary kids grades 1-5 participating.
We had to spend the night as the program started at 8:30 and we being over an hour away on a good drive would have spent two hours on a rush hour drive to get there. The traffic is unbelievable in this area just east of down town Tampa. We were able to enjoy the morning not having to fight the traffic backups and got to the school in plenty of time to spare.
We got back to the house in Seminole around 11'ish so we did our quiet times and I posted this ramble around lunch time. Amy and Eliza came for lunch then I headed out to put together the new 3 burner gas grill. Yeow what a job which took me nearly 4 hours to complete as some of the schematics are less than clear on assembling, oh well. It is a quality grill much like the one we have at the cabin only smaller. I'm looking forward to cooking on it as we use the grill several times a week.
Nancy took off on her bike for a ride through the hood while I finished up and put the card board boxes into the recycle bin. The weight on the grille was 140 pounds but 20 of it must have cardboard. We turned the a/c back on as the humidity was back with the temps in the low 80's. Nancy prepared a delicious supper of fresh broccoli and mushrooms in a garlic butter sauce over pasta and shrimp. We licked the platter clean it was that tasty. I had a glass of red vino while she cooked and checked on the local news with our paper from Sparta. There were lots of snow pictures from last week which showed some good depth for their first snow of the winter. The temps were brutal at times but has moderated back to the 50's today.
The updates on GG are somewhat better as Nancy spoke with her. She was directing Elise on how to decorate the Christmas Tree with ornaments so that was a good sign, Joe is doing much better in Elkin in the rehab facility and they may move him to an adult living place and Paw Paw sounded good on the phone as well.
Well we tuned into the FOX News Network and caught up on the world news and heard parts our POTUS and his speech and desire for the nation on our national security. So much different from the last apologetic potus who gave away everything to make the Iran Deal so they could chant death to America and export their terror to groups who want to dominate the middle east and acquire nuclear weapons to blow us up. What part of treason do the libs and dems not acknowledge. It's down right criminal what he allowed Iran to get away with in support of Isis, Hezbollah as well as Al Qaeda in their attempt to destroy Israel and promote radical Islamic terrorists with their jihadists all over the globe.
I did watch a few minutes of the hapless Bucs who were losing big to the Falcons when I shut the lights out at 10, LATER
