Well the first day of this new year was spent with family at our son's place in Brandon and it was awesome to say the least. The food was so good and plentiful as well but more on that later.
I started the day with a sleep in as we had been up two hours past my normal bedtime due to watching the ball drop, so I tried to make up for it by sleeping in or staying in bed until after 7'ish. Needless to say my internal clock had me awake at the usual, well before 6 normal rollout. So I gave in and got up and did my usual routines that start with some quiet times to honor my LORD, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. All seem to be holding as of this post.
I piddled around on the lap top until Nancy make us an egg sandwich for breakfast then headed out to check on the garden. She initially had the heat on to take the chill off the house but the sun was out and it quickly warmed up as I hand watered the gardens. I had put rat poison out for about 4 days in a row and last night they had not eaten any, so just maybe they had succumbed to its effects and I've wiped out this nest and saved my garden from their eating everything, plus they are nasty creatures.
I watched a few minutes of the annual tournament of roses parade and it looked like it was quite chilly in the L.A area or Pasadena where the parade and bowl game is held. I should have gone down to see it one year and thought about it when I lived in California but the drive was considerable, so I never did. We did watch the game at Bobby's along with all the family and Michigan won over a tough Alabama team who I thought would win the whole thing, but it looks like Blue maybe the dark horse in the game this year.
We got to Bobby's around 2'ish and played with the boys and helped set up for when everyone came around 3'is. We ate around 4'ish and had a ton of food with pulled pork barbecue, smoked ribs which Bruce made and brought along with mac and cheese, slaw and Nancy blacked pea soup, deviled eggs, a fancy bread and roasted veggies and of course two kinds of home made cookies.
Dee and Mike came down from Woodstock to visit with their two girls Halley and Kelly and their 5 grands. Kelly and Jordan now live in the area as he is in the USAF at MacDill and Halley with her husband Cody are in Nebraska with their two boys. Tammy came with husband Rich and one daughter Brook, the other one decided to sleep in and forgo the party and then Amy and Family including Tyler, Ava, Sam and Eliza came as well as Katie's sisters Kayla and Kelly and their parents Lynn and Bruce, so their was a great crowd on hand and some of us had never met some of the kiddo's. It was a great time of family and fellowship as most everyone was on my side of the family. We took one picture of just those with the Triplett blood and it was most of the crowd in attendance.
Everyone left just before dark around 5:30 and headed home. There were lots of hugs and well wishes by all. Halley and her family leave Wednesday for Nebraska as they drove and Dee and Mike leave Thursday for Woodstock as they brought and stayed in their camper along with Bonnie their dog. The Ross Family heads back to school this AM and Amy heads back to school at Keswick where the kiddos all attend as a pre-school teacher and we of course will do our retirement thing with me back on pickle ball court this AM and then we will take down the tree and decorations from Christmas. What a joyous we time we had this year, LATER
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