Cranberries and fajitas

Saturday, we went to the Cranberry Fair at the First Congregational church in Amherst, MA. It is essentially a very large rummage sale, but not just clothes, but everything. Katie, Savanna and Brendon were all involved in it as volunteer helpers. Also, a friend, Alice, who used to be a member at First church, and is now a member at the Guilford church, was in charge of the "higher end white elephant room," and wanted help packing things up at the end of the day to bring back to Guilford for its Christmas Bazaar, which includes a huge white elephant table and is held on Dec. 4th. So we hung out for a few hours, had lunch there, helped pack up and brought back select items for Guilford.

At the entrance to the Cranberry Fair, you were met by this booth where Dusty and Dorothy were serving free cranberry punch. 

Then at 4 pm, we met Julie and Jerry to see the movie Spotlight, which is quite a gripping movie about the Boston Globe's revelation of widespread, systemic child abuse by priests, and its coverup, in the Diocese of Boston, with the knowledge of Cardinal Law. It held us riveted for a couple of hours. While we were doing that, Mimi and Tamar we watching Peanuts. Then afterward we all went to Mi Tierra, a Mexican restaurant, where we had a good meal. 

                      Supper with the Feinlands at Mi Tierra. 

                                   Mi Tierra interior

We got home close to 11 pm, and then I still had to make sure all the music was ready for choir Sunday morning. So it was pretty late by the time I got to bed. But then I didn't sleep that well.

Today we had a really good choir at Dummerston. We started with I want to thank you, Lord, by Moses Hogan as an Introit, and our anthem was a shape note hymn, Gratitude, which is really rousing.

After church, Ellen scooted down to Guilford to rehearse recorders for a Sunday in Advent, while I hung out with John and Cynthia at the church coffee hour, and then we met Ellen at Panda for a good dinner together. I was pretty tired by then, not having slept well, so I came home and took a nap while Ellen did some grocery shopping, and then we had a good supper and I went off to a Carmina Burana rehearsal. 

Meanwhile, Betsey, Rob & Katie left today on a two-week journey to several National Parks and other scenic areas in WY, OR, CA, NV, UT, and AZ. It should be a wonderful trip and it is amazing that Betsey feels able to do it. We look forward to seeing pictures and hearing all about it.