please pardon the merriment

We all met at the Freygangs for lots of food, desserts and fun. We unwrapped the gifts with joy and Lilly saw fit to shred up paper that was strewn about. We are wishing you the very best this season and throughout the year!

We took a break and played Family Feud on DVD and the ladies beat the men by many points. If you haven't played the game -- well, you'll find that sometimes you do very well and other times not so well.

Marcus got a chance to watch movies with Diane and Jim and we found a stinker and a boring stinky one, namely Ghost Rider and Phantom Menace, respectively. Candy Cane wishes and Sugar Plum dreams!!

Drive safely this Winter

I understand that I once had a car

My car needed fixing ... it took that shop 8 days and it still isn't right. I have had to borrow a car. My anger is an ulcer.

Happy birthday Jennifer

In this series, you'll note that I had no good picture of Father as he was upset. James was upstairs ill, and Joe wasn't there for he spent his time being a jack--fill in the blank. It was quiet, calm and enjoyable. She's 20 and there's no way to tell where she's going.

Happy birthday Jenny!

sputter cough

That was my car ... at 1:40 a.m. I had thankfully returned to hometown by that time, but my car wasn't going to make it to the auto shop. I waited on the phone with AAA for 20 minutes to find a driver. Twenty minutes after that, he arrived and took the damaged car to auto shop, me in the cab. Apparently I did more damage to the car when it slid out of control, than I thought.

It was just what I really wanted for Christmas -- a repair bill.

I do, again, thank God that I got it to hometown and that I limped it to a gas station where I could stand in a HEATED place waiting for tow truck. It was also nice I could drive it back and forth to work until Tuesday when I could get it fixed.

View of the farm

I pulled an incomplete James Dean by going off the road last night in terrible road conditions. I was going faster than I should and what I didn't know was that the left lane was 60% worse than the right lane. I skidded out of control, thankfully not hitting the car near me, then sliding across the highway divider and onto the northbound lane and up onto the other side of the road and finally bumping into a farmer's fence.

The car is fine -- undamaged and rides just fine, but I'll need to get an alignment just to make sure. I don't think I would have had such a nice landing with the old car of mine. I have another blog for geared for my reverence for God, but I'll thank God here anyway.

Thanks God for your miraculous saving of me!

The roads were just complete crap yesterday and especially last night with rain, then sleet, then rain again. I don't mind snow, I don't mind rain, but frozen roads I hate. I saw many cars off road -- done for the weekend. God apparently was thinking I was still needed.

for Debbie

Laz

Well, Lois is perpetually tired and no test has shown why. Thomas is therefore, perpetually worried about Lois. With the exception of being tired ... everyone seems to be doing well. There isn't much new save for the onset of dreary weather ... sunless days and frosty cold days and nights.

Marcus is sick of many aspects of his job. In some ways he is making strides, yet in other ways ... spinning his wheels.