Merry Christmas… Where ever Christmas finds you… Our son is in Everett on board his destroyer… He gets New Years off. One nephew is in Germeny, in the Army. We will miss them but take comfort in knowing they are safe.
It that time, time to start Christmas dinner…
But first a report on the state of the “Christmas Retail world”… It’s not good… I did a bit of last minute shopping this A.M.… nothing we couldn’t live without, but stuff we generally buy… I went to three stores… Target, Home Depot, and Trader Joes… lots of parking available, no lines… Trader Joes wasn’t as busy as a typical Saturday.
Later the wife and I went to the mall… again, lots of parking, few lines… we bought her a couple of pairs of shoes on drastic sale, 80% off, as Mervyns closes for good…
At least the local non-chain super market had lines…
Back to dinner… The Roast Beast is in the oven… the Yorkshire pudding batter is made and resting in the fridge with the salad dressing, sauce for the shrimp salad and horseradish sauce… I will prep the asparagus next, then plate the spinach salad and the shrimp… Tina is making pies, two Pecan chocolate pies, one for us tonight, the other for tomorrow at her brothers… she is also making a pumpkin chiffon for tomorrow…
The fire is lit. Music is on (Kfog, of course)
Tina is feeding the extra pumpkin to the feral cats, they seem to enjoy it but the house cats could care less…
Steph is walking dogs, the first bottle of wine is gone… Life is ok…
A note on the continuing report on Dave Morey’s last day… I have it on good authority that Friends was Dave’s last song… those that followed were Annalisa’s tribute…
May your Christmas be all you hoped it would be… Randy
The Christmas Color lithograph from Louis Prang & Co. c. 1862 was lifted from the Beyond the Exhibition blog. (ah, back to the footnote issue) bye again, Randy
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