Change in plans

Well, it isn't COVID affecting us today, it's the old fashioned reason - weather! It is freezing rain today, and we checked every online resource, and also talked with Zach and every indication was that it was really bad and we would be crazy to try to drive anywhere today. So we didn't. That was this morning at about 11:00a.m. Now it is almost 3 p.m.and we are wondering if we might make it. Ellen is talking with Katie - I think we might try it. We'll see! LATER We did it! Ellen tried out the driveway and it was fine. It was above freezing, so we gave it a try. No problem - the roads were fine. It obviously was very icy earlier but there had been both melting and road treatment in the meantime. So we made it fine and are in time for dinner! Amazing. The Feinlands are here, Tye and B, Jim and Mary, and of course Katie and Savanna, and Brendon. Ellen is so happy to be with her family and she was able to deliver the plum pudding, the stollen and the basket we made up for gift exchange. Yay!

Here we are!************************************* More photos:

Max with Theo and "B"

Buffet

Jerry and Max We had the drawing for baskets and we got the Feinland basket.

I've got my eye on the bottle of kombucha! And then we had figgy pudding:

AFTER EATING we played "fictionary dictionary" and seven of us played: Mary, Tye, Ellen, Jim, Savanna, Katie and myself (thw Feinlands had left by then). The words we got were shahi, rohun, epulary, septarium, primstaff, kirpan, and croodle. You got one point for anyone who voted for your made-up definition, you got a point if you voted for the right definition, and if you were the one who found the word and no one voted for the real definition, you got a point. Mary attracted the most points for her fake definitions, and won with a total of 12 points. I had five points, gained mostly from someone voting for my fake definition. By the time we were ready to leave, the weather app said it was freezing rain again back home, so we spent the night with K&S (we had brought stuff in case). We got up early and made it to the Guilford Church by 8:30a.m. - early for choir practice. Another service with a small choir and no congregation. It was essentially a carol-sing - we did two carols as anthems, Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming and the Ralph Vaughn-WIlliams setting of O Little Town of Bethlehem, and sang about six-seven other carols, as the congregation. Ellen read the prayers of the people. After church we went by the Davis' briefly - they are quarentined because Emma tested positive (she is not feeling very sick) - we waved from a distance. We had no trouble getting up our driveway, and had a quiet afternoon at home. John and Cynthia are coming tomorrow.

The choir this morning singing Lo, How a Rose.

Ellen, reading the prayers of the people