Well we had a lovely Christmas, Wendy and Dave came over and had dinner with us, and it was the first day we used the gas oven, it worked perfectly, and Tom the turkey weighing in at 14 pounds got duly stuffed and cooked, and we had a yummy dinner. Wendy supplied all the dessert, and we dined very royally. Lary decided that his paper hat didn't work well with the hearing aids.
Next day we invited Judy and Nick over for dinner, and dined once more on Tom turkey revisited, with new veggies, and delicious shrimp cocktail that Judy brought as a surprise, along with wine and more yummies to be consumed. A nice mellow evening with more nice company from home.
Forgot to say that we 4, Wendy and Dave, Lary and I attended St. Anthony in the Desert on Dec. 24th for a Christmas eve service, we were surprised that it was to last 2 hours, but it didn't quite last that long, they held communion at the end of the service.
Lovely service with lots of Christmas carols, when the minister was giving his sermon talking about all the distractions of the modern era, his own cell phone in his pocket went off, to his great embarrassment, and the amusement of the congregation. A few carols were performed by a soprano soloist with a pretty voice, then we were all invited to stay for refreshments.
We were very surprised that they had pretty well a whole dinner laid out, with cabbage rolls, chicken, tons of savouries, and lots of sweets, and eggnog with whiskey in it. It had been brought by the parishioners, I felt badly that we hadn't thought to take anything ourselves as a contribution.
Today Lary's birthday dawned with bright blue skies, a phone call from sister Sue at Heather's, and we had a nice breakfast here. Later tonight we'll go with Wendy and Dave out to Agua Caliente casino for a shrimp and prime rib buffet dinner, should be great, they are incredibly generous with the shrimp, and lots of them are as big as your fingers, so very very tasty.
I will welcome prime rib, Tom turkey still has some leftovers in our fridge, and lots of veggies, last night's company was too full to eat our special Christmas peppermint ice cream, so we may see what we can do about that.
More rain in the forecast but not the Pineapple Express that we had, it caused nearly $3 million in damages to Desert Hot Springs with the flash floods that it brought, they declared a state of ememrgency or something like that, but it is absolutely amazing how fast the bulldozers come and clear away all the silt and rock from the roads. getting things back to rights once again.
We were delighted to hear from Sue and Jen over the holidays, as well as Georgette. And all our Christmas cards and Christmas and Birthday emails have been so very welcome. We miss friends and family from home a lot, even though we are very happy and comfortable down here.
The painting and blinds project will take place late January, early February, and that will really make this house feel like our own after that. We have a new microwave over our stove, it has a wire shelf in it, which really surprised us, apparently as long as the rack is in the holder which is plastic clips on the wall, there is no problem with the rack and layered cooking.
Next big thing coming up is our cruise to Mexico, mid January. Whoo hoo.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS, AND THE VERY BEST OF 2011 TO YOU ALL.
HUGS.
About Me
- Di and Lary
- Di and Lary are both retired, Lary was in the Canadian Armed Forces as an Air Navigator, 32 years, and Di did many things, but the most fulfilling was teaching, for 3 years on an Indian Reserve in Central BC and later 7 years teaching ESL, both in Canada and in Europe, in Spain and later Germany.