It has been soooo busy! Thanksgiving was wonderful, we spent the day at home and had my mom and step-dad over. We ate silly. We found some table tops at DI that are beautiful, just missing legs. We have had them in storage in anticipation for the time that the living room, kitchen are remodled and then we will have setting for us all around one table again. Well with Thanksgiving we wanted to have us all at one table, so being the last minutes preparers that we are, we went to Lowes to purchase 8 legs, they only had seven. We knew that we had ample amount of wood to make one temporary leg. So we purchased the seven and brought them home. That day we ran to the storage unit to retrieve the tops and one hour before zero hour the guys got busy assembling the tables. The legs had to be cut at the top to fit the table configuration. We couldn't remember what they looked like, and the guys did a fabulas job shaving a corner of the top of the leg to make a perfect fit. We got one table done and they flipped it over and uh-oh....They were too tall!!! We had all looked at these legs in the store and they were great, not one of us took into consideration that we were measuring them against the kitchen bar table, we don't have a regular table in our home, never had, so it was a perfect bar height. We had to make all temporary legs for the day! Scott was very excited, he would like very tall tables, but Joy and I mulled it over and decided that the height would not only be expensive (the chairs would have to be bar stools) but that they would over power the room. Scott is dealing with the disappointment. Meanwhile, four of the seven legs can be used for the new bar in the kitchen, and we have come up with other ideas for the three. Then we will buy eight more of the correct height later...
We cut down our own tree this year. We went into the mountains with our permit and inadequate clothes and had a great time, you wouldn't think it would take so long to find the perfect tree. It was wonderful and we are already talking about next year and the clothes and shoes we will wear and the hot chocolate and snacks we will take to eat. It wasn't until we were up there that I realized that I had forgot my camera! I have done that a lot lately!!!
We went to my sisters to celebrate her husbands 50th birthday. He has been papa bear of the family for a long time. We sure appreciate his love and wisdom, I turned to him many times in my youth for advice and comfort. He always managed to say the right thing and for that I feel blessed to know him and call him friend. It was a surprise, my sis had to tell alot of untruths to keep it that way too... The look of surprise on his face was perfect! I took a photo, but had forgotten to charge my battery!!!! What a louse I have been about pictures. Well like they say, the cobblers kids don't have shoes!!
