Frosty and his Tractor and Plow
Beverly Makes Christmas DinnerCan't remember what we had for breakfast today, (writing several days after the fact). I know I made waffles, but don't think it was this day. One day Brent made scrambled eggs and Beverly made thin pancakes with straw berries and whipped cream. Did we even eat breakfast today?? I started a pumpkin and a chess pie and got them in the oven.
Anyway after everyone got going and some few morning chores done, we sat in the living room and opened our gifts. Clayton passed ours out to us - as they had opened their gifts at home before they left. Joe got a wonderful digital atomic clock with numbers about 10" high - its gives the day and date and indoor temperature and is updated by satellite (so now he never needs to ask me what day it is again), a new green shirt, a NFR rodeo hat, and a big jar of mixed nuts and some chocolates. I got 2 pairs of soft and cozy pjs, since that is what I'm wearing most of the time just lately, some warm slipper sox and a Willow Creek figurine - an angel with blue birds along her arms - which I love, and some beautiful Calphalon knives which were badly needed. Together we got an air purifier, also needed and appreciated. Also, Beverly brought the last pages of the scrapbook she made for me of memories of our family. She brought the first pages, about 2/3 of it, with the beautiful cover to me at the hospital in Salt Lake and said she would have more pages for me later. I wish you could see it. She is an expert and creative scrapbooker. Thank you all so much for being our Santa, everyone. For years we have given everyone money, so that was also exchanged and since I PROCRASTINATED AGAIN and didn't get them mailed, Beverly is taking everyone else's back to Vegas with her to give to the rest of the family.
As we were being busy in the kitchen, we saw Frosty come with his huge tractor and plow to plow out our road. I think he must have spent most of an hour on it. It's a good thing, since the wind had drifted our track in and all our vehicles, including Brent's truck, were all snowed in I'm sure. Frosty never came in so we still don't know details yet.
Beverly had said she would cook the dinner and she got started on it. She made the best ever meal - turkey with yam casserole, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn and raspberry jello salad - the kind with the pretzel crust and a layer cream cheese and pineapple. I made the cranberry sauce. I laid down and fell asleep for a nap and when I woke up the dinner was all ready. How easy was that?? Later after getting the after dinner mess cleaned up we had the pie for dessert.
Clay walked down the road with the dogs quite a few times and they loved it. Sparky adores Clay and just sits in front of him and gazes into his eyes. About sunset all of them took a walk. They didn't seem too interested in doing a much outdoors or in using the snowmachines.
Beverly went on line and we were able to verify the date that the computer had been delivered to Best Buy by UPS and printed that out. They have had it about 6 weeks now, so I will be calling them soon to find out what's taking them so long to get it back to me.
Later that evening we made some popcorn and watched Clay's DVD movie Transformers. It was continuous action, kind of good, amazing what they can do with all that computer and digital image stuff. We also watched several other videos of mine in the afternoon that Clay picked out.
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