CAROLING, COLD, HOT CHOCOLATE AND COOKIES!

Hello,
Well we finally got the kids together for some caroling. Not all were kids, though, some adults tagged along, good natured but feeling the cold. Myself, Craig and Hanna Mason and Kathy Casey were the brave adults while some young adults such as Pat Lu, May and Erica also came. The rest was a merry band of youngsters who thought it all very exciting. Fortunately the weather helped out by only being -2 instead of -20. It felt quite cold to me.
Joe had a very good idea this year when he hitched up one of the sleds to two of the draft horses (I think Irish and Dew) and some sleigh bells. We sat on bales of hay and carried quart jars with little candles in them. Most of us had headlamps and some of us had red light bulbs in them which made for a VERY festive and appropriate setting.
We passed out our caroling booklets and sang merrily along as we lurched and slid and almost tumbled off the sled as it slid its way through snow and drift.
It was fun and nobody took note of the fact that we did not always know all the words to the songs. People came out dutifully braving the cold and watched us on their porches or sat inside in their living rooms and watched us through their windows.
Some extra excitement was had when Joe kept taking the sled through deep drifts or up against overhanging branches and everybody either almost got knocked off or doused with snow from the branches....
My humble camera was not able to capture the lights and decor various families had out, but I will include a few nonetheless....
Robin is wearing his headlamp and his neon orange snow pants, so he is quite visible. I kept asking him if he wanted to go home and get warm but he would have none of it...he wanted to stay.
After about 45' of lurching around on the wagon we finally made all our rounds and came back to the Tab for some welcoming warmth, hot chocolate and cookies.
It was a good time!

Next morning the official Christmas Day, being the 25th. of Dec. we came back to the Tab to eat a scrumptious brunch of:

English muffins
cheese
ham
cream puffs
scrambled eggs and grits
egg nog
coffee and hot chocolate

Thank you to all the ladies who made this possible. Rachel, May, Kim, Gri, Jessi, Kelly, etc.

So after the big meal, we hung around playing table games, messing on the computer, generally having a good time of food and fellowship.

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A WONDERFUL AND BLESSED DAY WITH YOUR LOVED ONES!!

gri et all