The sun came out for a short while today but mostly it’s been damp and grey. We’ve had a good couple of days doing Christmas things here and with my husband’s side of the family. Yesterday it was raining but today we went to the cemetery to visit my father-in-law’s gravesite. His headstone isn’t ready yet, but they do have the platform where the stone will be placed. He and my mother-in-law will share a headstone.

Before that we’d gone out to the farm and walked around. There isn’t a set move-in time with the house. My guess would be another month or two but that’s only a guess. Right next to the new house is the old farmhouse where my husband’s father grew up. The plan was to have it demolished once the new house was done. We walked around inside and I was surprised at how much stuff was still in there. I guess when they knock down a house you can leave anything you don’t want inside and they take it all away.

There’s going to be an auction for the farm equipment and all the things still left in the shed. For Christmas my mother-in-law gave each of the kids an ornament that was made out of a picture of them and Papa. She had one made for herself as well. It’s one of him standing in the doorway of the house while it still was only a wooden frame. He looked handsome and strong and just like himself, our many ways to remember him.