A really, REALLY, R E A L L Y good day! ! !
5:14 pm
34º F, Rain! ESE wind 12 mph.
Unbelievable! We are getting some light rain! We got about 13 snowflakes this morning, then the rest of the day it looked like it would be dropping something out of the sky. Never happened! Just opened the webcam from Enschede and they have our snow! It is a little after midnight there.
The real highlight of the day was my going to Kewaunee to get a can of creamed corn to add to the soup I am making for tomorrow night at church. Actually it wasn’t the corn that was special, but the stop at the post office afterwards. There was a large box from the Geenen Family. It contained a whole bunch of little packages all wrapped up for Christmas! Good thing I stopped to get the corn before the post office - might not have made it to the grocery store.
Most precious items and most appreciated, are the pictures of Mr. Pim and M&M! They are precious for sure - the kids I mean. Two picture frames and several pictures were included, incase we got tired of them and needed to change them. I don’t think so!!! Can you tell there is a proud Oma and Opa? We are amazed at to how big the kids have gotten. M&M has a mouthful of teeth (pretty cute too) and Pim is becoming a real handsome young man.
Oma was very happy to receive the package. A couple of newspapers were also included as filler - I am sure every word of them will be read, but not by me. Also were several cooking magazine - I probably will profit from them more than Oma though. The pictures really look good, but can’t read a word of the magazines. Guess I will just have to learn Dutch by tasting. There were all kinds of goodies in the package. Oma really had a good time opening them all. I just held the plastic bag for the wrappings as she took it off. She really got a kick out of everything - almost as much as Pim I think.
Also in the box, among other things was a National Geographic magazine from 1957. The highlight of the magazine is an article about Wisconsin. I have not read it all yet, but sure looked at the pictures. Very interesting. As a kid, we probably got the magazine through a subscription it seemed we always had. I don’t remember the article, but always read the magazine from cover to cover as soon as it came. I would have been in high school and it was very interesting seeing pictures of some things I experienced then. One of the ads was for a bed and breakfast with a "bed and a gargantuan English breakfast" for $2.40/night! Rent a car for 10¢/mile, including gas! Where have those days gone?
All in all, it was very enjoyable getting the box and it’s contents. Oma called Astrid after everything was opened. They had a good chat and caught up on some of the "local gossip" here and there. Hope they hook up to Skype so they can chat more often. Maybe with Pim and Onno too.
Now I have to go and read a National Geographic magazine.
Chris <><
34º F, Rain! ESE wind 12 mph.
Unbelievable! We are getting some light rain! We got about 13 snowflakes this morning, then the rest of the day it looked like it would be dropping something out of the sky. Never happened! Just opened the webcam from Enschede and they have our snow! It is a little after midnight there.
The real highlight of the day was my going to Kewaunee to get a can of creamed corn to add to the soup I am making for tomorrow night at church. Actually it wasn’t the corn that was special, but the stop at the post office afterwards. There was a large box from the Geenen Family. It contained a whole bunch of little packages all wrapped up for Christmas! Good thing I stopped to get the corn before the post office - might not have made it to the grocery store.
Most precious items and most appreciated, are the pictures of Mr. Pim and M&M! They are precious for sure - the kids I mean. Two picture frames and several pictures were included, incase we got tired of them and needed to change them. I don’t think so!!! Can you tell there is a proud Oma and Opa? We are amazed at to how big the kids have gotten. M&M has a mouthful of teeth (pretty cute too) and Pim is becoming a real handsome young man.
Oma was very happy to receive the package. A couple of newspapers were also included as filler - I am sure every word of them will be read, but not by me. Also were several cooking magazine - I probably will profit from them more than Oma though. The pictures really look good, but can’t read a word of the magazines. Guess I will just have to learn Dutch by tasting. There were all kinds of goodies in the package. Oma really had a good time opening them all. I just held the plastic bag for the wrappings as she took it off. She really got a kick out of everything - almost as much as Pim I think.
Also in the box, among other things was a National Geographic magazine from 1957. The highlight of the magazine is an article about Wisconsin. I have not read it all yet, but sure looked at the pictures. Very interesting. As a kid, we probably got the magazine through a subscription it seemed we always had. I don’t remember the article, but always read the magazine from cover to cover as soon as it came. I would have been in high school and it was very interesting seeing pictures of some things I experienced then. One of the ads was for a bed and breakfast with a "bed and a gargantuan English breakfast" for $2.40/night! Rent a car for 10¢/mile, including gas! Where have those days gone?
All in all, it was very enjoyable getting the box and it’s contents. Oma called Astrid after everything was opened. They had a good chat and caught up on some of the "local gossip" here and there. Hope they hook up to Skype so they can chat more often. Maybe with Pim and Onno too.
Now I have to go and read a National Geographic magazine.
Chris <><
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