Dec. 22-27
From a snowy and cold MO,
The past few days have been full, but then we are seldom bored. On Friday, Dec. 21st, we joined long time friends at the home of Bernard and Sandy for a carry-in. Sandy usually has no idea ahead of time what will be on the groaning board. She and Bernard provided sliced ham and marvelous bread - plus other additions while the rest had quite an assortment of dips, appetizers (one made of wonton shells and a crabmeat filling), vegetable casseroles, and of course plenty of desserts. I would guess most of the attendees go back to our early marriage days - with one attendee probably only a baby at that time. We gathered about 6:15 and all were probably home and in bed by 10:00 !!! - old fogies that we now are.
We watched lots of basketball and football over the weekend. On Monday we decided to make a very quick trip to Cabela's (something Jim needed desperately) and then on to a new shopping area north of the river called Briarcliff. Our main need for going was that we were almost out of the girls' dogfood - we don't feed them just any old kind - and I had gotten on-line the night before and discovered two sources north of the river - usually we go to either a shop on off of Johnson Drive or we go to 135th and Metcalf - all for two spoiled little girls.
When we returned home, we baked the turkey and eventually took the meat off the carcass. In the meantime I fixed my usual sweet potato casserole. Ron and Mary picked us up on Christmas morning - about 11:30 and we headed to Stan and Helen's - they are good about taking in orphans for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The table was groaning under the weight of the food and we we were groaning when we finally called a halt.
Jim and I opened Christmas gifts on Christmas morning. The girls are not nearly as interested as Shah (our cocker) or Lady & Falstaff (our Westies) during the gift opening process. In fact the Westies one time had presents in our backyard when we returned home from school - so all presents had to be elevated. Trixie doesn't leave already prepared bows on the packages so we removed these so as not to tempt further exploration.
It seemed we had several errands to do on Wednesday and Thursday. We were at WalMart earlier enough yesterday that we didn't have to go through long lines - and the same for WalMart.
We went by the Social Security office this morning and confirmed that Feb. 1 was the first day I could go in and see about being added to Jim's Medicare package. I can't make an appointment until after January 1 (appointment cannot be made more than a month before the actual sit-down appointment).
Trixie is currently spread across my lap with her head on my left arm - gently snoring. She is quite at peace with the world.
We have no active plans for upcoming days - other than getting the tree down within the next week and our usual daily activities. Snow is predicted again tonight - thank goodness we are on a list of snow removal. Jim clears an area for the girls to go out our sliding glass door and on to the backyard, but he at least didn't tackle the drive way the last snow.
Be safe.
B.
The past few days have been full, but then we are seldom bored. On Friday, Dec. 21st, we joined long time friends at the home of Bernard and Sandy for a carry-in. Sandy usually has no idea ahead of time what will be on the groaning board. She and Bernard provided sliced ham and marvelous bread - plus other additions while the rest had quite an assortment of dips, appetizers (one made of wonton shells and a crabmeat filling), vegetable casseroles, and of course plenty of desserts. I would guess most of the attendees go back to our early marriage days - with one attendee probably only a baby at that time. We gathered about 6:15 and all were probably home and in bed by 10:00 !!! - old fogies that we now are.
We watched lots of basketball and football over the weekend. On Monday we decided to make a very quick trip to Cabela's (something Jim needed desperately) and then on to a new shopping area north of the river called Briarcliff. Our main need for going was that we were almost out of the girls' dogfood - we don't feed them just any old kind - and I had gotten on-line the night before and discovered two sources north of the river - usually we go to either a shop on off of Johnson Drive or we go to 135th and Metcalf - all for two spoiled little girls.
When we returned home, we baked the turkey and eventually took the meat off the carcass. In the meantime I fixed my usual sweet potato casserole. Ron and Mary picked us up on Christmas morning - about 11:30 and we headed to Stan and Helen's - they are good about taking in orphans for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The table was groaning under the weight of the food and we we were groaning when we finally called a halt.
Jim and I opened Christmas gifts on Christmas morning. The girls are not nearly as interested as Shah (our cocker) or Lady & Falstaff (our Westies) during the gift opening process. In fact the Westies one time had presents in our backyard when we returned home from school - so all presents had to be elevated. Trixie doesn't leave already prepared bows on the packages so we removed these so as not to tempt further exploration.
It seemed we had several errands to do on Wednesday and Thursday. We were at WalMart earlier enough yesterday that we didn't have to go through long lines - and the same for WalMart.
We went by the Social Security office this morning and confirmed that Feb. 1 was the first day I could go in and see about being added to Jim's Medicare package. I can't make an appointment until after January 1 (appointment cannot be made more than a month before the actual sit-down appointment).
Trixie is currently spread across my lap with her head on my left arm - gently snoring. She is quite at peace with the world.
We have no active plans for upcoming days - other than getting the tree down within the next week and our usual daily activities. Snow is predicted again tonight - thank goodness we are on a list of snow removal. Jim clears an area for the girls to go out our sliding glass door and on to the backyard, but he at least didn't tackle the drive way the last snow.
Be safe.
B.
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