We went to the office to pay
our utility bill and for January through March.
We picked up an activity calendar for January and bought tickets for a
breakfast. We made a trip to Fry’s for a
few groceries and had to drive around the entire parking lot for an empty
spot. Strangely, it was not as crowded
in the store as the parking lot would have indicated.
After I made lunch, we did
laundry. We took it easy before having an
early dinner and then went to a casino which was not any nicer to us than the
last one!
Dec 25th – Tues – MERRY CHRISTMAS
I woke about 7 to the sound
of the garbage truck emptying cans in the park.
We didn’t put our trash out last night so I threw on some clothes and
took out ours, the neighbors who have left, Moe & Trish’s and Brad &
Clare’s as they aren’t here. Then I
turned on the furnace and crawled back into bed while it warmed up. We were still watching TV in bed when Jamie
knocked on the door at 8:30 with a gift.
I made dough for a new cookie
recipe and put it in the fridge. I was
getting ready to put cinnamon rolls in the oven when Gloria called to ask if we
wanted to join them for breakfast at IHOP so I put the rolls in the fridge and
they picked us up just after 10. IHOP
was jammed and we had to wait ½ hour for a table but the cooks were turning out
the food in good time.
When we got back, I baked the
new cookies and they did not turn out well so I baked up the last of the
shortbread cookies that were also in the fridge.
My contribution for dinner
was mashed potatoes so I got them ready and put them in the crock pot on “warm”
– for anyone who hasn’t tried this, it works very well and gets rid of one last
minute chore for turkey dinner. If your
crock pot does not have a “warm” setting, don’t leave them too long on “low” or
they will get crusty on the edges.
Just after 3 we headed to
Ernie & Dianne’s and were joined shortly by Dennis & Gloria. We were talking about teaching Dennis &
Gloria to play Wizard when Fred & Grace arrived so we all just sat around
talking and having a drink.
It was definitely too cool to
eat outside at 5:15 so the guys put up a table in the Arizona room and the
ladies had the table in the dining area.
We continued with the segregated chat groups after doing the dishes and
then had dessert which no one “needed”.
Next, Ernie set up a large round table in the AZ room and we played LCR
which is a simple dice game.
Dennis & Gloria and Fred
& Grace had shortly after 9 so we played Ponytail Canasta with Ernie &
Dianne. The ladies were pretty lucky –
OK, quite a bit of skill is also involved!! – and we won the game.
Dec 26th – Wed
Terry slept late while I was
working/playing on the computer. It was
cold again last night so had to crank up the furnace before getting up. After a very late breakfast, we ran a few
errands – Fry’s, WalMart & Garden Ridge.
Dianne sent some leftover
turkey home with me yesterday and said I could use it for enchiladas
again. They will have company starting
tomorrow so I invited them and Dennis & Gloria over for dinner today. We set up the large round folding table in
the living room and squeezed 6 chairs around it for drinks, dinner & cards.
Gloria brought back the
brownies & ice cream that I took to her house for dessert one night and
that did not get used as we were all too full.
After a couple of games of Wizard after dinner, we had dessert and then
played more Wizard. We started pretty
early so it wasn’t too late when everyone left.
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