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Kathryn does the bulk of the decorating in our house.  She set up the nativity scenes that my mom made and the one she received from her dad.

Billie Jo, Dakota, Ed, Kelly, Izzabella, Barb, Joe, Mom, Rob, Linda, Kathryn, Eric and I met at Barb & Joe’s house for Thanksgiving Dinner.  I went to Barbara’s house on Wednesday to help set up and peel potatoes.  Wednesday night I spent at Mom’s.  Thursday AM Mom & I went to Rob & Linda’s for breakfast before going to Barbara’s for a Thanksgiving Dinner that couldn’t be beat.  Pictures below.

I share season tickets to the SU basketball games with three others.  That means I end up with 5 home games.  This year the two exhibition games (Cal State & Lemoyne) were lumped as one game I chose to go.  I like the early season games as an opportunity to see new players/freshman that are likely not to play regular minutes during the main season.

Most exhibition games are scheduled against Division II and III teams.  Last night SU played Lemoyne and lost!  It was a good game through out.  SU struggled on defense and the Lemoyne students at the game went crazy with the win.

We have a healthy growth of bittersweet in several trees across the road.  Kathryn harvests it for fall decorations.  This year she had a bright sunny day for collecting the vines.    She and Linda collected it on Friday, gave it a week to dry out and then on Sunday she went to Rochester to visit her brothers and decorated Fran & Isabel’s graves with bittersweet.

Eric was the Pokemon character ChimChar for Halloween. He got to wear the costume three times.  He and his buddy Colby went to the Utica Zoo Spooktaculur fundraiser two weekends ago; last weekend Jen took him to the HP Middle School Halloween Carnival and then finally the HP Halloween parade.