Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov/26/05 15:46
Hi all!
First of all, welcome to the new site. Hope it works out for everyone.
We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. And for all you Detroit Lions fans out there, there's always next year.
Our Thanksgiving was a wonderful day. We were joined by Sarah and her daughter Tabitha, and Irene and her sons Lawrence and Stefan. We're thankful to have both families as neighbors and friends. Ironically, Sarah is having her boiler replaced, and Irene's boiler is rebelling, so neither family had heat in their houses. Meanwhile our heating system has been diagnosed with faulty mechanical switches, and the electrician managed to force one into functioning but warned us not to let the boiler stop heating for any reason, lest it freeze shut and not come on again, so we are in a mini tropical zone until next week when the plumber can replace the switches and restore a more normal heating cycle. We had a fully traditional Thanksgiving meal, including turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole (the crispy onion thingies are onion salad crispies here) , and sweet potatoes. I even managed to find the last two pumpkins huddled together on an empty table in the Swansea Market, I slaughtered one and made three pumpkin pies. Yeah!
It was a little surreal, however, to get a mailbox full of e-mails from my local retailers in NY trying to entice me to shop early Friday morning for doorbuster deals. I sure do miss JoAnn's craft and sewing shop (and don't get me started about Kohl's!). There is a yarn shop/cafe in Mumbles (hee!), one of Swansea's neighborhoods, called Mrs. Mac's. She's got just about every kind of wool imaginable, her name is invoked with reverence at our meetings of the Swansea Stitch-n-Bitch. I went there a few weeks ago and spent a full half-hour just staring at it all before buying some beautiful blue stuff.
Friday was a teacher planning day at Hannah's school, so she had the day off. And Mother Nature chipped in to make it a snow day as well. We got about 2 inches of the gorgeous fluffy stuff, which, this being coastal Wales, began melting promptly at 9:30. But it was beautiful, and Hannah and the other kids had a great time doing first-snowfall things like building snowmen.
We're also thankful for our friends and family back home, and you're in our thoughts this season.
First of all, welcome to the new site. Hope it works out for everyone.
We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. And for all you Detroit Lions fans out there, there's always next year.
Our Thanksgiving was a wonderful day. We were joined by Sarah and her daughter Tabitha, and Irene and her sons Lawrence and Stefan. We're thankful to have both families as neighbors and friends. Ironically, Sarah is having her boiler replaced, and Irene's boiler is rebelling, so neither family had heat in their houses. Meanwhile our heating system has been diagnosed with faulty mechanical switches, and the electrician managed to force one into functioning but warned us not to let the boiler stop heating for any reason, lest it freeze shut and not come on again, so we are in a mini tropical zone until next week when the plumber can replace the switches and restore a more normal heating cycle. We had a fully traditional Thanksgiving meal, including turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole (the crispy onion thingies are onion salad crispies here) , and sweet potatoes. I even managed to find the last two pumpkins huddled together on an empty table in the Swansea Market, I slaughtered one and made three pumpkin pies. Yeah!
It was a little surreal, however, to get a mailbox full of e-mails from my local retailers in NY trying to entice me to shop early Friday morning for doorbuster deals. I sure do miss JoAnn's craft and sewing shop (and don't get me started about Kohl's!). There is a yarn shop/cafe in Mumbles (hee!), one of Swansea's neighborhoods, called Mrs. Mac's. She's got just about every kind of wool imaginable, her name is invoked with reverence at our meetings of the Swansea Stitch-n-Bitch. I went there a few weeks ago and spent a full half-hour just staring at it all before buying some beautiful blue stuff.
Friday was a teacher planning day at Hannah's school, so she had the day off. And Mother Nature chipped in to make it a snow day as well. We got about 2 inches of the gorgeous fluffy stuff, which, this being coastal Wales, began melting promptly at 9:30. But it was beautiful, and Hannah and the other kids had a great time doing first-snowfall things like building snowmen.
We're also thankful for our friends and family back home, and you're in our thoughts this season.