We’ve finished the meal, cleaned up, and most folks are now right bored. The evening is yet young and everyone is on their own for food the rest of the day and night. We had a total of eight souls for the feast this afternoon. My mom and dad came over from Soda Springs. Daryl drove up from Salt Lake and Jared flew in from Denver last Saturday. Our niece Ashlyn along with one of her roommates came down from Rexburg to round out the group. We had far, far too much food. It’s a good thing that we have another fridge out in the garage! Much of the leftover food is now stored out there while we hope the young folks will graze until their hearts are content and the food is gone. Fat chance — pun intended.

We have much to be thankful for. We are living in a nice place, have a wonderful house, a great job, and are living very comfortably. We are close to family and enjoy their company often. We have good health and access to all of the best health care necessary. Life continues to be very good. I’m sure that we’re far better off than much of the rest of the world and I’m also thankful for that as well.

Tomorrow is one of the biggest shopping days of the year. We will be minor participants. Dad wants to go over to Harbor Freight and I’ll go with him. I don’t think I need to buy anything there, but it’s an interesting store and worth looking through. Most of the Christmas shopping is done, so we don’t need to battle the holiday shopping crowds. I think we’ll spend some part of the day putting up Christmas lights on the front of the house — Daryl and Jared will do the putting up, I’ll do the supervising. The holiday season is hard upon us. Happy holidays!