Somehow Sean and I hardly ever entertain. The friends we have in Charlotte generally have children so they prefer to have us visit them.
Relatives are all yonder and far so we generally plan visits to them.
So yesterday it was a wonderful novelty to get out the wedding china and glasses for dinner with Sean's aunt Jenny and uncle Luther.
Luther and Jenny live in Winston Salem and sort of invited themselves, although I quickly seized on Jenny's casual mention of wanting to come visit.
I meant to ask Sean, but forgot, to take a picture of the table before dinner because it really did look lovely. After dinner it didn't look so lovely anymore. Dinner was tasty and that tends to leave crumbs...
There's not much else newswise going on in these parts. The weather's turned and this weekend has been sunny and warm as opposed to last weekend's snowfall (it didn't last long) and predictions of dire icey winterey conditions.
We went to another gallery crawl on Friday night to "man Sean's area". Although there were a few more people out than the last event 2 weeks ago it was still relatively slow. Those photos look so incredible in the black gallery frames with wide white mats. I have to convince Sean to put up a few in our own home since somehow the larger the print size is the more impressive. Mr. Sean would prefer to sell a few of the gallery prints before donating some to his wife's collection, however.
Home in Vancouver news: my sister Tilly is working far too much overtime now that she feels the sting of a mortgage. Tsk tsk Tilly there are years left to pay this thing off.
My mom just celebrated her 71st birthday and is still looking fabulous. My mom has her flower calendar set up really well. Birthday in January, her daffodils come up in February, she gets flowers at Easter in March/April, then mother's day in May and shortly afterwards her own garden's blooms are up. Somehow Mom manages flowers year-round.
My Dad's hip surgery date has been set for Feb 17th. This is good news since he was going to have to wait another 5 months initially. I'm sure it will all go smoothly and we'll keep him in our thoughts and prayers.
Hulda and Ernst Kischnick have made it to South America for their 3-month stay and have been safely delivered into the hands of relatives according to the latest report.
And that's pretty much it for news -- if you've got any let us know so I can as Pops would say "vvrite dat down".
M.