the end is near

Not the end of the blog, maybe but the end of our time at KBC and in Oxford. It has been an amazing year, today was somewhat of a clean-up and get ready to go type of day. The garden looks so different from what it did even a few hours ago. My arms feel more like jelly than normal, the strimmer that I used whilst cutting the very pinnacle of the highest vegetation became quite heavy as I swung it back and forth without falling off of the ladder. The trees that bent over to the ground due to excess leaves and branches now look almost bald as we cut and hacked away at them. The bushes are nicely rounded or squared and the front garden is totally weeded thanks to Jazzy. We also planted some begonias in our neighbours front garden, she was so touched by that expression of goodwill and friendship. They look really lovely along side of the new turf that was placed there about 3 weeks ago. Totally off subject of leaving has been the many games of Settlers that we have been playing, it is a fun game one that we really didn't play until the very end of the year. Looking back I think that is OK because we didn't have the time to get together and play during the rest of the year, so it has been quite special at the end. Saying goodbye to friends has not been easy, although because it has been a slow draw of people sort of day by day is going quite well. Tomorrow night I am judging at a battle of the bands contest at OCC youth, that should be a fun time, I have never done that kind of thing, I hope that I'm not too easy or too hard on the bands. Much going on next week in our final hurrah's, will tell about that in my next entry. later for now
earl