12/2/24The values we leave our children are more important than the valuables we leave them. Amish Proverb  Some clouds, calm, 23 degrees.  Sun and clouds today with a WNW breeze, a high of 34. Some clouds tonight with a low of 17.  Cloudy tomorrow with a NW breeze, a high of 24, a low of 15.  Partly cloudy Wednesday with a SW breeze, a high of 32.  3-5 inches of snow Wednesday night with a low of 24.  1-3 inches of snow Thursday morning with a SW breeze, a high of 36.  A low of 24 Thursday night with a strong WNW breeze.  Partly cloudy Friday with a WNW wind, a high of 7, a low of 11.  Partly cloudy Saturday with a west breeze, a high of 23, a low of 9.  Partly cloudy Sunday with a NE breeze, a high of 27, a low of 17.  Snow showers Sunday night.  Rain/snow Next Monday with a south breeze, a high of 37, a low of 32  .Rain/snow showers next Tuesday with a WNW breeze, a high of 46, a low of 29.  Partly cloudy Wednesday the 11th with a NW breeze, a high of 37, a low of 20.  Partly cloudy Thursday the 12th with a NW breeze, a high of 32, a low of 19.  Partly cloudy Friday the 13th with a NW breeze, a high of 34, a low of 23.  PM snow showers Saturday the 14th with a NW breeze, a high of 37, a low of 27.  Cloudy the 15th and 16th with brisk NW breezes, highs of37 and 33, lows about 24.

     I came home from church and took a nap knowing it would get busy when everyone else got home.  My church has an early service because we share a pastor.  I did find out google had misled me.  I wasn't sure which of the four themes of Advent yesterday was, google said Love.  The weeks are Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love.  I've never quite understood using the word "Hope".  Thanks to Jesus we don't have to hope we are going to Heaven, we know we are.

     The girls were teaching a class on wreath making at their church at three.  When they got home from church we rearranged the get together room so we could set up our Advent wreath and put up the large Nativity.  It was very hard for the little ones to imagine their parents putting up the Nativity and me reading the stories to them.  A different Nativity but the same story books.  Lil Andrew has the Nativity we had  when they were little.   The battery powered candles in the Advent wreath  are very nice.

      When the girls left Jay and I set up the large outside Nativity that is by the front door.  The power comes from behind the house via a heavy duty cord I ran weeks ago.  I had checked all the lights inside the figures to make sure they work.  There is no frost under the snow, the stakes went right in.  The large star up in the peak of the barn was plugged in.  Today I'll do more.  Bekah has to work on vegetable seed orders, Jay has things to do around the greenhouse.  Trees will sell slowly until next weekend.

     May your day be Blessed, Sally