Yep. Next time we have Dinner together it'll be 2009.
The year ended with a blessing.
N. was doing some work for a local buffet restaurant and, instead of paying him, they gave him 25 chairs. The idea as I understand it was for him to sell them, but instead he told them he'd be giving them to "the church" (that's us, by the way. We're "the church".) and they said sure, fine.
So here, for your edification and encouragement, is a side by side pic of a new and an old chair.
The new chairs clash with the whole duct tape motif we've got going on, but we can live with that.
Last week CL put up some decorations including a rather lovely tree, modeled here by the 
"great, grand and groovy" M. You can't see his OCC hat. Very dapper. Or his smile.
After Dinner activities included cheating at euchre:
And a chat over coffee and a smoke, first hand and second hand:
The next couple of Wednesdays are Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, so we announced that there'll be no Dinner those nights. ("AWWWW...")
But we will be having a drop-in afternoon on Monday the 29th with chili, hot dogs and games. And also two Breakfasts in January instead of one, the second one being sponsored by the local St. Vincent de Paul Society. Very nice.
Some of our team are involved with "Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day", hosted by a local church and manned by a mix of people from the community. There's a potato peeling party on the 24th, if you're in the area. BYO peeler.
What I'll be mulling over the next couple of weeks (besides cider) - twice in the last week, I've been the cause of someone being shushed. It's happened before several times but not twice in the same week.
The first was at lunch on Tuesday. The conversation got a little racy and, for one person, a bit embarrassing. So she glanced at me, and told the others to knock it off, they were "in the presence of RW."
The second was at Dinner. The air was turning just faintly blue and the sailor at the table was told to watch their language "in church". "But it's not Sunday!" "I know, but RW's here."
Not sure what to make of this. Should I frown a righteous but tender frown, sad but loving? Rev. Ruth loves you, in spite of everything.
Or tell a dirty joke? I'd have to buy one of those books.
How to respond? I just don't know. What would Billy do?
r
The new chairs clash with the whole duct tape motif we've got going on, but we can live with that.
Last week CL put up some decorations including a rather lovely tree, modeled here by the 
"great, grand and groovy" M. You can't see his OCC hat. Very dapper. Or his smile.
After Dinner activities included cheating at euchre:
And a chat over coffee and a smoke, first hand and second hand:
The next couple of Wednesdays are Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, so we announced that there'll be no Dinner those nights. ("AWWWW...")
But we will be having a drop-in afternoon on Monday the 29th with chili, hot dogs and games. And also two Breakfasts in January instead of one, the second one being sponsored by the local St. Vincent de Paul Society. Very nice.
Some of our team are involved with "Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day", hosted by a local church and manned by a mix of people from the community. There's a potato peeling party on the 24th, if you're in the area. BYO peeler.
What I'll be mulling over the next couple of weeks (besides cider) - twice in the last week, I've been the cause of someone being shushed. It's happened before several times but not twice in the same week.
The first was at lunch on Tuesday. The conversation got a little racy and, for one person, a bit embarrassing. So she glanced at me, and told the others to knock it off, they were "in the presence of RW."
The second was at Dinner. The air was turning just faintly blue and the sailor at the table was told to watch their language "in church". "But it's not Sunday!" "I know, but RW's here."
Not sure what to make of this. Should I frown a righteous but tender frown, sad but loving? Rev. Ruth loves you, in spite of everything.
Or tell a dirty joke? I'd have to buy one of those books.
How to respond? I just don't know. What would Billy do?
r
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