The smell of smoke fills my room

My room and laundry room smell of smoke, bonfire smoke, after my wonderful evening spent at the beach with the Olson's last night. I don't care how large a bonfire they could have built, it wouldn't have been enough to keep us warm. Even with blankets on, we were freezing. Hot embers landing on our feet didn't even help. But, I wouldn't have missed it for the world!!!!

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The fingers of my red leather gloves are quite sticky from the s'mores we enjoyed and the tips a bit blackened from my reaching into the fire to move logs around to stimulate more heat. I might need to put red leather gloves on my CHRISTmas list if I can't get the blackness off of them. The marshmallow will most likely lick off! Fred, the firemaster from Linda's condo building, has been forced to use the more"accepted" fire pit, rather than the sawed in half water heater used last year for the bonfire. It was warmer, then, too, because of it being held in late April instead of mid-November, where we had a low temperature overnight of 30 degrees above zero.

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Justin's move began and was over in less than two hours, costing more than I expected, but.........at least it's done with. I couldn't imagine those guys trying to move his large dresser or 50" TV in their cars or S-10 pick up, nope, wouldn't be a good thing to see or experience. His platform bed with all the drawers underneath. I can't even imagine the mess they have, at both places. The most odd thing was, that with all the confusion and such, neither of the other two guys in the quad even poked their noses out of their rooms to see what was going on. What is that about? I asked Justin if they were actually alive, and he said he could hear video games being played which really fills me with great joy and delight. Oh great! He was going to be dropping off my donations at the Yard Sale at Victory after the move was completed. As I thought about it, I did the thing we hated the most about the yard sale---my donations were unpriced!!!!!!

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Justin is also coming over tomorrow to go to church with me, because our congregation is singing both "In Christ Alone" and "Jerusalem, the Golden", the second of which will be accompanied by organ played by Kathy B.; viola by Suzanne; and Robbie on trumpet. He had to regain "his lip" just to play this hymn, and I think he got it! After worship Justin is coming over here to watch the football game and eat chili. He asked me to make some of my famous chili complete with beer added, and also asked me to get some sour cream for him to add to his. This is something he tried at Jesse's dad's house and loved it, so I'll get him some sour cream.

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I've been invited to dinner down at Chardonnay's tonight, having some sort of fancy beef roast she picked up at the Fresh Market. Four of us are having dinner together, with me being responsible for the dessert, of course. As soon as the call came in from Sharon, my mind immediately went to what to bring for dessert so when she asked me to bring dessert, I was so ready! We are also going to try our hand at Mexican dominoes, a game I'd played at church on game night awhile back. Justin said it sounds like something "old people" do, and I had no argument against that. At least it isn't maj jong! A visit to the store is pending as I need to get my pie plus a few things for our lunch tomorrow. It's just tooooooooo cold to go outside, only 47 degrees right now and windy!