Tennessee is not Palm Springs, but it's not Northeastern Ohio either
- My Christmas card had a picture of several poinsettias and a pansy on it this year, which may seem odd in a traditional Currier & Ives sense. Pansies and a one-horse open sleigh - hey? Well, one of the most odd sights for me when we moved here from Ohio in November 1991 was that people planted pansies in the fall and, in fact, they are blooming in my "garden" currently.
- I always use the term "garden" loosely since I love love love gardens, but I don't love love love to garden. And I don't fertilize enough, so to have 3 pansies blooming at once is a rare treat.
- But I never tire of the sweet faces on pansies and the many colors. I'm like a kid in a candy store when the pansy flats are at Lowe's and Home Depot. (See, I don't even go to the proper garden stores or nurseries, mainly because there aren't any near to me.)
- All that to say while we had the lovely snow the other day, today we tied the all time high of 73 degrees for Dec. 19. Of course, the high for Sunday when the boys are going to the Titans game is predicted to be 38 degrees so that's how it goes around here. I was able to get out for 2 walks with Bill and Mojo today because when it is too cold it aggravates my face pain too much. Sad, but true, exercise in general aggravates it.
- Well, time for David Letterman and after that Craig-yum-Ferguson. Late night laughter is the best medicine of all! Right after pansies blooming in December on a spring-like day.
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Bill and I had a wonderful time with Dave and Erin at Erin's parents, Roger and Muriel Pfaff, in Marietta, GA. We drove down on Sunday and spent 2 nights at a Drury Inns & Suites, but ate all our meals (except the free breakfast at the motel) with the Pfaff's. Erin has one sister, Alison, and her boyfriend, Mike, were also in attendance. Mike is a med student at MCV, where Bill's brother Jim went (a few year's ago!).
We got hooked on dominoes, which we played when we weren't eating one of Murierl's wonderful meals. Of course, when we played we ate homemade cookies and candy, made by Erin and her mom. Dinner Sunday night was a wonderful chicken dish over pasta; Christmas Eve was 2 kinds of hearty homemade soups and homemade rolls; and Christmas dinner was prime rib. Wow! Were we impressed. Best thing to me: sticky pecan rolls at Christmas breakfast. Super yum.
On Christmas Eve we went to a candlelight service at 11:00 p.m. at the Pfaff's Lutheran church. It felt very similar to our Methodist candlelight service. I think the big Christmas present was something called a Wee, an interactive games thingy played on your TV. Like all playstation things, it's beyond me.
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Favorite Quotes
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life . . . PicassoBe who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind . . . . . . . Dr. SeussThe truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away . . . Robert M. Pirsig "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret . . . Henri-Fredric AmielWhat worries you, masters you . . . . Haddon W. RobinsonWhen we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience , so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape . . . Louise Erdrich in The Plague of Doves
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