We’re having an Italian Christmas dinner on Monday. I’m trying to cook ahead. Here’s a picture of my son Mike stirring the meat sauce.
My sons Tony and Mike and my daughter Lindsay and her friend Christina and Nancy’s son Mike are all in visiting for the holiday.
Jim 
We’re eating a huge feast at the Country View Banquets near LaGrange, IN. We are so full! Just when we thought it was time for coffee, out came the carts with full bowls of food for round two. The Yoders fed us well. What was also quite nice was that Mr. and Mrs. Yoder, 2…
We have grass! Finally, we have landscaping. Pulte’s landscapers came this Thursday through Saturday and installed trees, shrubs, mulch and sod. Looks so much nicer now and should really cut down on the dust. Now we get to water it steadily for weeks. Hate to see what the water bill will be but we don’t…
Ruby got 2 new coats for winter. She’s modeling them below! Jim
Our 2nd grand child was born today! Layla Mae – 6 pounds, 10 ounces at 20 inches. Congratulations Tony and Judy!
Today, Nancy, Kevin, Nelly, Bernie, Judi and I went to Mexico for lunch and shopping. While there, we ran into Heartlanders Paul and Nan L, Nancy A / Dave S, Corbin and Flo T and a couple others. The 6 of us went to Angel’s for lunch. We’d never eaten there before. Heartland friends Joseph…
Our church, Medinah Baptist is having their annual Harvest Home dinner and concert tonight. Nancy, Lisa, Lisa’s boyfriend Mike and I all plan to go. It will be a nice break from working on my laundry room too!