Friday’s Fave Five

 Hosted by Susanne! 

This has been a wonderful week.  It started last  Saturday.  We served our dear friends Gerri, David, Dot, and Bill a special dinner that represented I guess you would call it a holiday dinner.  I was a Thanks-giving dinner with a Christmas vibe.  I had already decorated for Christmas  so it was a transformed dinner, as well! 

 Instead of turkey we roasted a pork loin, and it was so delicious!  It was the first time I ever brined  my meat.  It was so tender and simply wonderful!

We didn’t have anywhere to go for Thanksgiving , in fact we weren’t expecting to celebrate because I had an appointment  for a procedure at the hospital which is one reason I did this dinner last weekend, but on  Monday the hospital called to say it was cancelled and moved to the end of January. I was a bit dismayed as  I’d rather have gotten it behind me, but it meant I could go ahead and enjoy Thanksgiving.   Lynn and I were a little bumguzzled about what to do about Thanksgiving since it was just the two of us.

Then we received the most lovely invitation to dine today with our associate pastor’s family. What a delight it was! Everything  was perfection ..our hostess, Giovanna, is from Peru, and she is such a lovely, gracious woman, and mother of three beautiful children, each about three years apart, the ages were from 11-17.  These were the most engaging and sweet young people we have been around in a long time.  They were extremely courteous, showed genuine interest and participation in the conversation.  We absolutely had an amazing day!  I must say, too, the food was a quintessential Thanksgiving feast. God is so good.. 

We had previously ordered shutters for our den, way back when we were painting the bookcases a teal color. We were so excited to get the room finished,, it had seemed to take quite a while. Well, yesterday the shutters were installed after almost three months. I had given up on getting them before Christmas! 

It seemed that for one reason or another we just couldn’t get our leaves raked up.  Lynn was determined to just wait until they were all off the trees. Well, yesterday he  got them all raked in a huge pile by the road. They will be picked up tomorrow! Yay!

It has been a wonderfully, eventful week!