Dogwood Acres, 12/13/10

DOGWOOD ACRES, 12/13/10, ELANE CRUM
Hello friends. With Christmas now less than two weeks away, I am beginning to feel the time crunch. We do not typically have a hectic social schedule, but with three invitations for last Saturday night, a choice had to be made and we went to my RE/MAX office party. It was a fun evening at my broker’s home, eating good food and spending casual time with my office family. We were all glad to see Norm France up and about, walking on both legs. He had a battle with one of his bulls back in the summer and the bull won that round I think the bull is gone now, but you can’t keep a good man down and Norm is moving round bales and salt blocks.
It was such a bitterly cold night to be out and we were really glad that our party was not on the Showboat Branson Belle. That would not have been my idea of a great way to spend a night on the lake.
One of the events that we missed was the Lone Star Christmas. Justin and Kasie were there and she texted me a picture of Aunt Bonnie sitting on Santa’s knee. I know she must have been the oldest person to visit Santa that night.
Rick had a busy week helping Neal and our church family get the new sanctuary ready for Sunday services. There were several volunteers who helped make it happen and what a blessing it was. Our piano man, Al Pulis, made a special trip from Branson to move the baby grand and tune it. New pews were in place in the new sanctuary and old pews were moved into basement classrooms and tables put in the old sanctuary which is now our fellowship hall. God moved with us and met us where we were.
Our annual Community Christmas Dinner was Sunday at 4:00 p.m., so we got to use the new fellowship hall too. After many years of eating in the classrooms it was fun to be able to meet together in one space. My sister, Christie, and her granddaughter, Madison, came to eat with us.
In spite of the Christmas spirit, Scrooge has also been sneaking around. He, or one of his sneaky helpers, broke into Jeff and Janet Dalton’s house last week and stole Jeff’s crossbow. Jeff had used the Horton bow for many years and sure hated to lose it. That is so hateful, I don’t know why anybody would want to do such a thing.
I saw Aunt Roma and Uncle Bill Friday afternoon. We had a good visit and watched the DVD that cousin Alvie sent with Uncle Bruce telling his funny stories. He sure had a knack for that and we always loved hearing them over and over again.
Jim and Dawn had an early Christmas surprise when they got up Sunday morning and found a strange car in their driveway and Trent sound asleep in one of the spare bedrooms. They had expected to see him next week, but we are all happy to have him home early. Bye for now.