Ella , the dog, comes to visit.

Ella is our friends, Beth and Mike S., 5 month old golden retriever, poodle. She came to visit for eight days as they go to their ski house in CO. We are used to a small dog so this is an adjustment. And she has an odor and is not hypo- allergic. Loves to eat your fingers and jump on you. But she is a puppy. We have been getting up one to two times a night to take her outside to do her business, pee. She is very bright. She comes and paws you that she wants to go outside. Not one accident in the house. Until the next to the last night. She peed on the oriental rug. The carpet cleaner came two times and he got the stain out. She does not chew too much. If it was Murray or even Friday the dog at this age, they would have eaten my shoes, underwear, glasses and anything else. She has only eaten two corners of our dining room RUG. Not good. I put the little girl statue over it so she can not continue working on it. We also watch her all the time. All doors to rooms are closed.












Your can see the one corner of the rug that is chewed.





Snow has arrived in the north. School closings and delays. The VH family had a large Xmas party planned with the VH extended family. It was cancelled because the snow was coming. Ellen had a brisket in the slow cooker. They will get to eat it all themselves now.
Eve is baking during those days. Does Adley think the marble island is the floor? By the way, she is in big girl pants. My last grandchild is toilet trained. And out of the crib. They are growing up!





Same nightgown but different days and desserts.





The K kids are playing their guitars. Abe has taken lessons for about four years. He is playing nicely. Nathan just started lessons this Sept. And Mollie is not leaning to play yet.

We now have HHI grandchildren. My cleaning lady's , Ganka, children. Names are Gabby 5 yrs, and Deni 8 yrs. we are having them over on Thursdays. Deni loves to fish and Gabby and I go to the farm and playground. They are big and good eaters. Nice and fun kids with the biggest smiles. They are home schooled. There is a 12 yr sister, Vicky, and she is in regular school for the first year. She says she likes homeschooling better, as she has more time in the day. She goes to Savannah three times a week for gymnastics. Making chocolate chip cookies









Lunch





At the gardens





This week the guys caught seven fish. Deni took a large fish home for his dad to cook.

















The dog Friday went to the VET and was in perfect health. Love Holden's coat.





Pictures of Mollie at school this week.






Mollie must be warm this day.





All the kid were using a calculator.











Our friends, the Schreibmans had a photo taken. Mike, Jack's friend for 42 years, is in poor health. They wanted to get a good picture while he is still able. Philip, Renee, Mike, Sarah, Asher 4, Meyer 1. They live in Charlotte, NC. We visited him in the nursing home in Oct. And he does not know us anymore.
Parkinson's and dementia. Probably the cause was Agent Orange for when he was in Vietnam serving for our country. The family finally got the government to admit responsibility for his health problems over the last 20 years.





Abe went to his first middle school dance. They were supposed to wear neon colors.





The new Beach Club is being built. This is the steel structure.





We celebrated Bernie and Kathy P. 44 th anniversary. The picture was taken two years ago.





We went to the restaurant 843 for dinner. The restaurant is namedfor the area code in HHI. An expensive restaurant where you can get large and small Plates of food. I had a salmon dish. Jack had a thick piece of swordfish. We had the waitress bring a piece of cake for dessert and a little singing to celebrate the day. Then to continue the evening, we went to the brand new Kroger supermarket. And walked around. I told the owners of the bakery area to make challahs on Friday. They said they make a bread with that dough. But I told them, that the Jewish people are going to want it to look like a challah. I hope my advice was good for them. I also told them to phone the temple about making challahs for the Shabbat service.
Jack proceeded to get ill that night and stayed sick for the next six days. He had a terrible cough and flu like aches and pains. He went to a doctor and got medicine including the pill that looks like a pearl. Great for the cough. I went to socials alone all week. Every night I went to a different Xmas party or dinner like a single woman.
Saturday we drove back back to Pittsburgh. We have the house rented for Xmas so we needed to clean it and put all our belonging away. We got back in 11 1/2 hours.
Two happy souls. Adley and Friday. They are a team and love each other.





I have these pillows that I needle pointed many years ago. I finally finished the last one and need to get it made into a pillow. The first two, that are made into pillows, have many different stitches in them. And are quite interesting.











This one is all the same stitch.





I have one more needle point that I am working on. It is an canvas with smaller holes. I have problems seeing it and wonder if I will ever be able to finish it.