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Good Tidings of GREAT Joy

 It was sleeting as we walked to mom's this morning. Mom was up and told us she slept ok but her nose was itching. Poor mom has to wear this big bandage that makes her look a little like Pinocchio. I should have worn ice tracks, the drives were really slippery and the wind gusty and strong.. After the walk I wanted to drive the car over to the barn to start cleaning out the now empty freezer but when I backed out of the garage the car started sliding and I ended up going backward all the way down the drive. I was glad I could stop it before going into the ravine. The car had just enough traction to get up the other drive. We have snow tires on the car but the drives were ice not snow. We had a lot of melting so in some parts there was standing water on top of the ice. It was 40 degrees most of the night but the temperature was dropping all day. The propane truck came to fill our house propane but Mark decided not to put any in the barn or the apartment. The barn was at 55 % and the apartment at 60%. He felt both should easily make it through the winter.  At the barn the freezer was given a good cleaning then plugged back in. 

I moved everything out of that closet except the freezer and 2 of the round tables. Those are stored behind the door. I would like to make this closet the coat closet. I've asked Mark to hang hooks on all the walls, some high and some low. The other closet was cleaned out next. Now the two high chairs for children are stored in that closet. The barn was also cleaned for the Meister Christmas tomorrow. Mark started bringing over all of the frozen food for the freezer at our house. That was the next job done. The food was gone through and anything I didn't want but was still edible was taken over to Joan's house. We still had one small bag of frozen food that was freezer burned and needed to be thrown away but the dumpster was removed yesterday and the new one isn't coming until Friday. Thankfully it is still very cold outside so we put it up on a table outside and will hope nothing gets into it until we can throw it away. Once that freezer was emptied, defrosted and cleaned out. That was ready to be plugged in then the freezing compartment from the fridge was turned off and cleaned out. By the time all 3 of those were cleaned and organized it was dinner time. Of course I used food out of the freezers to make dinner. Mark was happy with it. Sarah's girls came down to give me their new school pictures for my fridge. Below is Zion.
Below is Eden
Below is River
We left for the fellowship hall at 6:00 pm for the special Christmas service of Good Tidings of GREAT Joy. Below is just some of the service. It was such a beautiful evening and it really was a JOY to be there.

It was snowing when we arrived and snowing when we drove home. I think we are only expecting a couple inches but with a lot of wind. 






 

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