Thanksgiving trip cancelled....

Yesterday Jim was struck with a terrible chest congestion and we had to cancel our Thanksgiving plans to drive to SC and NC for the coming week. Monday night he had a slight sore throat and by noon on Tuesday, he knew he was heading for bad chest congestion; he gets this every year or two and it always starts out the same way. Better it happened yesterday than today when we would have been on a 9-hour trip in the car.

All the goodies I had baked for baskets for 5 families (cookies, candy, cakes, etc) went to the freezer to be used later. I didn't complain since were concentrating on getting Jim well. We'll schedule a trip to visit our son in Florence, SC later before they leave for 2 weeks in London during Christmas, to visit his deceased wife's relatives. Our 3 granddaughters, ages 12, 16, and 18 will be visiting their grandmother in an assisted living home at Brighton by the Sea. I hope she will remember them after having a stroke a few years ago. They were last in England for the millineum (2000) celebration in London.

So, our son James and I will get to go to the country Thanksgiving I wrote about earlier, at my cousin's barn. I'll bring Jim a plate of food to eat later. I learned a long time ago that when "life gives you lemons, make lemonade" or as my sister Susan says, "Roll with the punches". So I'm going to celebrate Thanksgiving, but not as planned.

There are exciting things going on in Elba. There on the front page of the Elba Clipper today was my photo, receiving a check for $40,000 to be used toward the loan borrowed by the city to complete the new playground.   Someday it will be all paid for.