Wednesday, November 28th - The Class of 2012 complete

It's a chilly -8' this morning and we're warming all the way up to 1' later today. There is a possibility that we might receive from 5 to 15 cm of snow by tomorrow. Lloyd's leaving for Toronto at 5:00 tomorrow morning so let's hope it's not too bad for driving.

We had our potluck last night and what a feast it was. As usual there was WAY too much food but a good time was had by all. We were missing two girls from our cooking class. Lesa was going to be arriving late as it was but she was also not feeling well, so didn't make it at all,  and Heather and her husband had tickets for a concert in town last night, so also couldn't be with us. We missed them both at our last opportunity to get together.  Everyone seems okay with the fact that we're not teaching the class again next year. I'm sure some of our paths will cross in other classes next year. We'll see what they are offering and then decide what class we're going to take.

We finally got everyone together for a group picture.

Donagh Community School Class of 2012

The instructors are only required to bring rolls to the potluck but Brenda made some really great biscuits and I made cupcakes. I decided to get a bit creative and made some poinsettias and snowflakes out of fondant a few days before so they had time to dry out a little. I couldn't find a poinsettia cookie cutter so devised my own out of a star. I cut out two stars and laid them on top of each other. The results turned out not too badly. I'll make those again.

We were entertained after dinner by the guitar class (only one student played)

and a large fiddle class (13 played in this one).

This was the 10th year of the Donagh Community School so hats off to the folks who put so much time and effort into organizing it each year. It is truly appreciated.

Yesterday Lloyd rented a gizmo to dig trenches so that he can run wiring from the house to the garage to the bunky. Next door neighbour Frank is coming over today with a tractor to fill in the trenches that now contain the wiring. Next step will be to hook everything up but that will have to wait till he gets back.