Hello! I haven't dropped off the face of the earth or anything like that.

I think I will be deleting this blog in the next few weeks, with dial up internet connection it's just too hard to do much with and it takes too much time. But it was fun to show off my pictures and then actually have friends pop in to look!

Someday maybe I'll restart another blog. I'd probably use blogspot again, it's very easy as far as that goes and I'll try to use the name Hennery again if I can.

I wanted to post one more time to say one more hello to anybody who might peek in like Krista! or Donna! or Judy! or Ebtihal (I met some more people who know you!!) or Kathy! or Jo! or Dani! or my lovely niece, Stef! I love you all! If you peek in, please leave a comment before you go!

Happy Holidays!

Couldn't have asked for a lovelier Christmas. We had a wonderful day together.

We gathered at our house. Eric ended up having to work an overnight double and had to go back in to work right after lunch. My cousin from St. Louis arrived late because she had difficulties that I can't go into. Other than that, the dinner was great and I had such fun decorating the house for guests. It has been a long time since I've enjoyed preparations for Christmas this much.

Our weather was gorgeous. I'll take a sunshiny Christmas over SNOW ANY time!

I love this photo my niece took during our after Christmas Dinner walk. She got a perfect shot of the giant coming out of his lair, right as he snatched my sister's boyfriend, and before he crunched his bones! Well, that part of Christmas was a little gruesome, but we were thankful it was the boyfriend and not somebody important.





Please try to ignore the fact that the giant looks almost identical to the gentleman in the photo from the madrigal below. Pure coincidence.

Madrigal

We had a very fun evening. Isaac was in the Madrigal at the high school. The performance was lovely and the food was good.

Isaac was the guy who announced the food (?) I think he was called a surveyor. He was a very handsome Lord.



After the Madrigal we found that it had started snowing---our first snow this winter. I was thinking of posting a photo of our snow, but it's kinda whimpy, so I'll post the non-whimpy sunrise we had recently instead.

December

These pictures illustrate what I feel about December. Dreary, cold and harsh. It normally doesn't snow much in southern Illinois until January, so until Christmas or snow, my photos might look depressing. Can't wait to post photos of little crocus flowers and daffodils coming through the soft spring soil.