You all have such great pictures! Donna, I like the one of the vineyard, it looks all geometric. And Amanda, is that a sunset picture? I'm a sucker for sunsets over water. {:-)
Oh yes, Amanda, 30 miles to come to our salad supper was common. We usually served 28 to 30 salads, not just green ones but any kind you could imagine. There were fruit ones, hot ones, cold ones, ones with different meats in, several different kinds of potato salads, you name it, we had it. All we served with the salads were buns, and then a light dessert, like a dish of ice cream or something similar. We decorated the church hall up fancy, and had a good program. Of course, the fact that it was free counted for a lot, too. Our ladies group consists of about 40 ladies who actually participate, and help with the work load. Last year we had 240 ladies there. Our hall capacity is 180. The fireguys were not happy, which is why this year we need to do something to cut down on the people just coming for a free meal. It's supposed to be a community outreach, not free dinner for the whole county.
So we changed it to Dessert Night, with age restriction of 13 -- also because there were a lot of women who brought their 2 and 3 yr olds, which just made it bad for everyone around them, and they wouldn't sit still, and they wasted food, etc. etc. We also are enforcing RSVP, so we can plan ahead a little with the desserts. We're having 4 different fancy desserts, and we're having several different types of teas, all served out of fancy china. Very hoity-toity. . . }:-D
I finished reading Donna Alward's How A Cowboy Stole Her Heart. I think I talked it about it before. It still amazes me how someone can be so talented with words as to handle such a delicate topic as breast cancer with the candidness that she does. I have not yet read a book of hers that I haven't loved, and this is the second time I've read this one. I've re-read several others of hers, also. I'm starting on her new one, can't remember the title, and it's in the other room, and I'm too lazy to go get it.
We have to be in town at 7:30 tomorrow to get our grandkids up and off to school, as dd goes to work at 6:30 and sig. other leaves at 7:40. When the little guy's off school, we would have him all day, but tomorrow he has school, too, so then we have other things to do until they get off at 3 p.m. -- like visiting Oma, or Hardy works at the compound for his brother, or I work on the wall mural I'm doing for Laura (my 13 yr old grd). Stuff like that. I'm almost done a crocheting a baby afghan for Valerie's little one, Evvie. It's round, with 8 arms, like an 8-sided star. I'll take a picture of it before I mail it to her, and maybe I can get it posted here.
Well, even though I did have a 4-hr nap this afternoon, morning comes early, so I'd better see if I can get a little more sleep tonight than I did last night. I was up until 2 a.m. doing laundry yesterday as the clothes I wanted for today were dirty. . .
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