The Yuletide Treasures craft show in Columbia City was this weekend, and wowee. The show started off with a rush and didn't really let up for a few hours. Before we knew it, we had sold out of potato and minestrone, and by afternoon we had sold out of the Christmas soala (all 3 dozen). By the end, we had sold a whopping 120 jars of soup, donated 2, and made $1440. Our biggest show ever, I think. Natalie even came by to help out around noon and stayed until the end. Beth wasn't sure how that happened, but she had needed a ride home from work the other day and kind of invited herself to come help. It went ok though, no big deal. So, only one more show to go for the season, and we are so short of jars now that we're really afraid we won't be able to get enough for Wawasee. We'll see, I guess.

Today was a wedding between two kids we saw grow up, sort of. Mayson McCoy and Annie Forks got married at the sporting clays place out near Bourbon. Reception at the same place. It was a very nice wedding, but we didn't stay because we had "friendsgiving" with our small group at the Burgess'. A carry-in of sorts, but Heidi made pretty much an entire Thanksgiving dinner including some really good smoked ham. No Bible study this time, just visiting. Fun time.

Last Wednesday I got to play teacher for a bit. One of the directors at work is an adjunct professor at Grace College, and he teaches a course in manufacturing techniques. He asked a while back if I could show his students all about injection and compression molding, and I agreed. Unfortunately the injection molding machine was down as of the day before, so I couldn't run it for them, but I did talk at great length about polymers, UHMWPE in particular, crosslinking, vitamin E, compression molding, injection molding, and all other sorts of poly guy stuff. I wondered if I could fill in all the time allotted but turns out I can talk for a long time about poly.