Ellen's Birthday!

Here we are, already, the twenty seventh of December, 2010...and our beloved is having her usual "shadow of Christmas" Birthday celebration. But, Hannah and I will do our best to make it special, won't we?

Lydia and Bob are with us for three days, and what a time we had playing our favorite card game, called "Oh heck!" Granny Lou came up from Richmond too, so we had the whole crew together.

Hannah did lots of cooking. Lou prepared a meal as a "present" to Ellen. Hannah did her usual variety of concocted dishes which were greeted with rave reviews.

We also had a couple of good "SKYPES", with Hopkins of New Hampshire fame, (Patrick, Allison and family) and also with Doug, "The Chief" in Florida....Britany and Ben were also online long enough to give us some SKYPE time...that was fun.

The big post-Christmas snow storm dealt us a glancing blow, as it "scooted" up the coastline to dump on Pat and Megan in New Hampshire. We have not yet gotten a report from them!

Oh! I almost forgot! We were treated to a sumptuous breakfast with Sarah, Nathan and family, down in Weyers Cave...(weirds cave!) on Christmas morning. Creamed chipped beef on biscuits and toast! It was great!