Come and Go

Another Christmas has come and gone.
We went out to someone’s place for lunch.  They were having a get together for anyone in the community who wanted to have lunch with them.  There was plenty of food.  It was going from 11am to 3pm.  We left at about 2pm.
Before that, we had had our usual praying together then did some things around the home as well as open presents.  I saw a kid interviewed and asked what they got for Christmas.  They said “paper.”  I got paper too but I did not treat in very well.  It was what was inside the paper I was after.
I had started to put together a table which we had bought from Ikea for our granny flat (cabin).  It was a small one with a folding side.  I must admit I have only ever bought a table and plonked it where it was going.  This one I had to construct.  It may not look much, but it had so many parts and a hidden extension.
I followed the instructions to the letter.  Merril helped me finish it.  Two are much quicker than one.   Especially when it is Merril.  She made what looked hard to me, easy.  In very little time it was completed and put in place.  And everything worked as it should!
The chairs are fold up ones and the spares in case people arrive to eat.  We have not bought the main ones yet.
Merril is studying and used some of the time to do what she needed to do to keep up with her subject.
There was other stuff we got done before we went out.  More and more the home is looking like it once did with the additions.  We had altered the bathroom so now it is a bathroom, washing cloths area and an ironing area.  One place was now three places.  That was because we used to do the ironing and washing in the now self-contained granny flat.  We do those things elsewhere now (our former bathroom only).
Then we headed off.  We took some heating trays on a “just in case” basis and they were needed.  It was good having conversations with people I had not talked to much before.  Because the chief cook was Asian, I had food I would not normally have.  I must say I liked it a lot.
We came home and had a rest.  Not much was completed in the evening.  That is pretty usual.  Heaps gets done early.