Part Of The Everyday Lunch Crowd

It is reminiscent of a by-gone era when the kids would come home for lunch and often have friends with them.  What to serve a hungry mob with 20-30 minutes to eat?  That was the question then, and it is the question I ask as I start each new week.  I'm getting a little bit food-weary and I'm the one gaining weight! Not Fair!  Sunday night Jay always asks, "What are you going to fix for FHE treats tomorrow?"  My answer now might sound something like this, "I don't even want to think about it till tomorrow."  I usually have a pretty good idea what I'm going to be doing.

 

Kirkstall Abbey in October

Bake-A-Date Night

Here are some of the cakes the young women baked.  The little pool table cake went for 80 pounds.   Only Isa and Jordan could pay that price.  They are employed and get a paycheck!

Bake-A-Date Night

The first two cakes were made by 2 of the young women, and the "hot dog" was made by a young man.  Quite clever, I think.

The top bid was 80 pounds for a double date.

J. R. Allwood and his Bake-a-date cake

It's time you all met J.R.  He is another of the valiant YSAs.  For Bake-a-date night, participants could bake a cake and decorate it.  Girls were to put their cakes in one room and boys in another.  Then they brought the boys' cakes out and the girls bid on them without knowing who they were getting.  The winner got the cake and a date with the young man.  The price she paid for the cake is the price she was to spend on the date.

J.R. sold some dvds to get the money to go out and get what he needed to put together a cake.  I think someone bid 18 pounds for his cake and he was absolutely thrilled.  (He said he spent 30 pounds on his cake)

Everyone loves the new pool table

Isa, the sharp shooter is king of pool. This young man is one of our favorites!  (We only have 100 favorites)  He joined the church about a year ago, and is the only member in his family.  He's such a good young man and has supportive friends in Huddersfield in the form of Jordan Wilkey, Paul Stainton, Ben Rawnsley, Megan Platt, and Nathan Salcombe.

I'm sure there are many more I haven't named.

I love Red, and so can't stop taking pictures of the vine.

Beautiful England

I have been excited to see the colors of Autumn unfold.  Now we are seeing the change from green and more green to bright red, orange, yellow, and gold.  The grass stays green all year round, so it makes a beautiful contrast to the fall colors.

The Virginia Creeper has now lost most of its leaves.  Only the red stems remain.  We pass by this row of flats every day as we travel on Low Lane.

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dance

Wednesday nights we started having some dancing after institute classes are finished.  So far there was one on Salsa, then Jenny Boyd taught the Michael Jackson "Thriller", then we went back to Laura Thornley and her ballroom dance partner teaching the cha cha and other dance moves.  It has attracted some fun kids who really want to learn how to dance.

Human Battleship and Human Checkers were two of the games the activities committee organized for our Opening Social.  Their philosophy is "Keep it Simple".  It has always worked.  These kids participate and always make it fun.  There was a sheet dividing the room and separating into two teams.   The kids are the battleships, then they have a bean bag they throw over and try to hit a battleship.  If you get hit, you're out.  So goes the game until one side destroys all of the ships on the other side.

Human Checkers involved some leap frog moves and piggyback rides.

All in all the evening was a success with good food, lots of laughter and visiting, some guitar playing, and of course the christening of the pool table.

There were over 100 that attended.