Christmas in South Carolina, Part 3:
Well, it's Monday and I've been in South Carolina for five days. Yesterday, we had the Christmas Cantata at the Johnston Baptist Church. The preacher's wife is the unofficial choir leader (with a small stipend) since the church cannot afford a full-time person any longer.
Her program was fine, for the most part. She included two juicy solos for herself, only one of which was welcome by me. The first was too ambitious and the syntax was challenging. It was too hard to follow the "thought" in the lyrics...another instance of a trained singer in love with her voice sacrificing the song for her pipes.
The program, however, was pleasing overall and no harm done. Last night, we attended the Children's Christmas party. There were far more of us older folks than children, but the children are the reason for the season, as they say, and we had a visit from Santa and all the children got to sit on his lap, have a picture made and each got a gift bag.
The rest of us sat around and ate finger foods...pimiento cheese sammiches, ham and cheese sammiches, chicken salad sammiches, etc. There were various kinds of chips, a cheesy dip of some sort (Mexican-inspired, I believe), meatballs and various/sundry desserts including lime cake and red velvet cake.
The event started at 6 p.m. My mom and I were back home by 6:55 p.m.
We then spent the evening watching the "Survivor" finale and futzing around with various things while waiting for it to start.
This morning, I washed two small loads of clothes. My mom is baking our annual Rum Cake ("my" rum cake, actually).
Otherwise, it's overcast, sporadically rainy and a fine day to stay home. We'll play more SkipBo this afternoon after my mom's soaps.
Tomorrow a.m., we're off to Aiken for shopping and lunch at Red Lobster. Some huge sales are taking place this week...many items at 70 percent off.
More later, as things develop.
