First of all, let me remind you all to pray for Nathan and his big exam tomorrow. He has been studying a long time and I’m sure he wants to do well.

We have made good progress on the house this week. We were over there every night except last night when I had choir and Dad had some other stuff to do. And we’ll be hard at it this weekend, too. It is starting to seem possible that we will eventually get done. It is very nice to have a working furnace, too. I dread seeing how much it is costing us to heat that drafty place, but at least we don’t have to freeze as we work like we did over in Ladysmith!

I went to an interesting class on sweet potatoes today. We have one on some food every month at work and I usually don’t go, but I wanted to work a little late today, and the nutrition intern was presenting and her preceptor wanted to know how she did, so I sat in. Anyway, it was great. We sampled sweet potato biscuits and sweet potato fries and a sweet potato treat made with a marshmallow and graham crackers that I didn’t care for. And we got a lot of cool recipes to try. Did you know that a sweet potato has over twice your RDA of vitamin A? And that you can substitute them for some of the flour in bread recipes – they did that during the wars when flour was in short supply.

We don’t have anything planned for Thanksgiving except working for two full days on the houses. We are probably going to fix something on the grill rather than make a turkey dinner for just the two of us.