What are you up to for the weekend?

Well, it's my favorite time of the week again, Friday! LOL!

I am off to the Mark Twain House Museum in Hartford Connecticut tomorrow. Every year I say I am going to go but I never do so tomorrow is the day.  There will be actors there portraying Mark Twain and his family, and they will be giving Christmas tours of the house. I am excited, it should be fun!

What is everyone else up to for the weekend?

The usual stuff, housework tomorrow and church on Sunday. We have our Christmas broadcast from Salt Lake City Sunday night, that's always worth watching.

I hope you have tons of fun at the museum Diana. I hope it lives up to your expectations, though I don't dount it will.

Thanks Sue! I expect they'll have to kick me out when it's closing time! LOL   

Sue, do you spend the entire day at church on Sundays?

Is the Christmas broadcast something anyone can watch or is it only available to church members?

I go to church from eleven until two (until the new year, when it should be nine to noon).

I get the BYU channel and I think it will be on there. I don't know if you get the BYU channel our east though.

They have it broadcast to all of our chapels though, so if you know of one near you and want to go. I think it starts at six mountain time (five here).

Thank you Cathy.

There you go Diana. I hope you have Direct TV, then you can watch it.

Cathy, did you hear that Elder Wirthlin passed away?

Hum, Friday night we went out to dinner, Saturday morning hubby with the "Scouts" collected 700 pounds of food for the local Food Bank, while I went to the store to get things I needed to finish off the downstairs and decorate the tree there, when I got home my kid's were here with her sister, left the guys babysitting, while they went Christmas Shopping, so I did a little more shopping myself, got back, they had hung the huge wreath with the red velvet bows on it, over the entry way wall, and I chit chatted with some old friends at the store a bit, actually I was going to work there and one year after another I have not been able to apply because of something coming up in my life...from being summoned to court duty, to the heart ailment, to recovery....but we keep talking all the time anyway. They gave me an area rug for $10 less, and another place I went to gave me an blouse for 99 cents..."because I never see you buynig something for yourself hardly" is what I was told. That night the kids went to downtwon Portland to see the tree down there, while we stayed home and just enjoyed the evening in "resting", took the refrigerator apart late last night and cleaned it out, and I slept in today and then decorated the downstairs tree, and am finishing off an few Christmas cards for across the country.I also yesterday "gave in" and tackled setting up my "Le Max" Christmas Village. It wasn't an lot of taking time to have fun in ways this weekend. I did buy me an book to read called "The Messengers"..about an man whom supposedly through regression finds out he walked with the apostle's at one time...it sounded "interesting"...just in case I have some spare time. It's now Sunday evening and am"on-line" getting caught up in my websites. Watched a few cooking/Christmas  shows and what not during the day also...as I decorated the tree. It's been comfortly "busy"...and things are looking better, still have things to do though...now comes the detail type things and wrapping gifts. Next weekend is the main house tree and fresh greenery. From then on the cooking part. Kids get out of school  for the Holidays by the third week in December.

This weekend was for me, a partial culmination of research from 2002 onwards about 2 USAAF B-17s that collided in mid-air near the then, RAF Greenham Common base and meeting one of the families of one of 16 officers killed in the incident that was lost to history, and in 2007/8, a film about it was made and shown on Sunday.

You can read about their visit here http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=8759 and the appeal for any information cited was actually a full page story about myself and what I'd pieced together over many, many months. The link on my Profile page also goes to a website of mine about the incident you may have already seen. There is another US family I hope to meet next year, who's father was also killed on the same aircraft as the one in the article, co-incidentally, both pilots had daughters born a month after the accident, so neither never knew their dads.