Subject: Weekend Update: November 5-8
Date:    Mon 11/9/98  9:19am

Last Thursday night, I took Joy (Joy_Metcalfe@juno.com) out to
Charley's Eating and Drinking Saloon where we ate and drank in
celebration of her birthday which is this coming Thursday (11/12).
This week will be busier than last so we celebrated the passage of
time when time would allow.

On Friday afternoon, my parents brought up some visitors from Scotland
for an afternoon at the Manor.  We discovered that their guests were
much more fond of ginger beer than they were about root beer; they
were very clear about that!  After dinner, Joy whisked off to the
church for a children's Christmas musical rehearsal and later on that
evening, Tom and Erin (nephew and wife) breezed in from Connecticutt for
a couple of over-nighters.  Saturday, I dashed the teens to the church
for a district event, then shuffled Joy off to the Pepperell Craft Fair.
I recollected the teens in the afternoon, bundled Joy and the goods she
hadn't sold and shuttled them home for 25 minutes while I sizzled some
burgers and dogs for Joy and me to take with us as we trekked to
Londonderrty for a Toonerville Rook Tournament. After losing miserably,
we wended homeward. Tom and Erin returned with Charity (our niece) for
the night. On Sunday afternoon, a visitor from Puerto Rico (Bill Rapien)
accompanied us home for Sunday dinner and a relaxing afternoon - since we
were able to turn off the Patriots after the first quarter. Now, all that
sounds like a lot of your weekends with kids in soccer or other sports;
not unusual for you guys either.  I don't know how some of you do it!

Joy sold all of her cozies, a bean-bag-like natural heating pad that
you pop in the microwave for a couple of minutes and it stays warm for
30 minutes or more.  She had the help of a hawker (me) who brought the
microwave oven to the craft fair and handed a warm cozy to people who
would pass by the table.  Joy even made a Beanie-Baby-sized cozy teddy
bear, which I predict will be the next sensational item that won't
keep pace with demand.

By the way, my firewood finally got delivered and I have two of the
three cord sitting in my driveway.  I told Mandy that the young man
whom I refer to as "that young man" is invited to come back for a
visit while the driveway is full.  B^)

Also by the way, our very own illustrious Jessica Rose made the
National Honor Society.  She's already been inducted into the Family
Honor Society for some time now.  I don't know how one gets into the
National Honor Society (since I never did).  Someone might want to ask
my mother.

(For those of you in CATXFLAG (CA, FL, TX, and GA), it is windshield
scraping weather up here.  Remember that?  Brrrrrr.)

Mark
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