Well Sunday the last day of the year was just beautiful that started with 52 degrees when I rolled out at 5:30 to head over to SPC where BridgePoint Church meets each Sunday to hold worship at our third campus. I rode my bike despite the chill in the air and by lunch time it was perfect with temps in the 70's and bright sunshine. We baptized three folks outside under the pavilion in a jacuzzi and then had a catered luncheon of barbecue pulled pork and chicken with baked beans, Cole slaw and mac and cheese, wow was this ever a feast and ever so delicious. This occurred on all three campus's of the church.
We got back home after helping to load out around 2'ish and I was bushed from pushing and loading all of the large containers onto a huge truck. We were a little short handed as many folks were still gone or away for the holidays. I tuned into our hapless Buc's for the final game of the year and they were playing the division winning Saints and we won on the last drive of the game. The Panthers also lost who were in contention for a bye in the up and coming playoffs; anyhow it was the Buc's super bowl game win with a dismal 5-11 record.
We headed out around 4 o'clock with finger foods, games and some vino to the Botbyl's house which is just three houses up. We finished watching the game there with them and the Tracy's and then played a round of Logo a board game which Patrick won big. Afterwards while constantly picking at our many finger dishes we played a new game called Smart Ass which Patrick also won, barely. We continued with our eating some grilled fillets, salmon and shrimp along with some asparagus and broccoli which all were fabulous in taste. After the cleanup we decided in order to keep us awake to play the best of three games of Sequence which is always rowdy and the guys won in two straight games for the last time of the year, so we got the bragging rights as 2017 quickly slipped away. We sat and watched some cold folks in New York City watch the big ball drop at midnight then went into hugging mode before heading out for the house. It was so nice outside as I wore a t'shirt and shorts. Just beautiful with the full moon showing.
I soon slipped into bed as it was two hours past my bedtime and we got up two hours later than my normal 6'ish roll out this morning. We are expecting Bobby and Katie along with her mom and dad, the Botbyl's and of course Amy and family for a traditional New Years Day dinner around 4'ish. We will have sauerkraut and pork spare ribs, smashed taters and cooked veggies as well as a veggie tray with dips and a pot of black eyed peas, yeow what a feed. We will certainly miss GG as this was always one of her famous meals over the years to start the year out right. We should get into some good college football bowl games as there is one being played here in Tampa. It looks like a drizzly rainy overcast day but at least the temps are rather warm and it could as it usually does clear off by late afternoon, LATER
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