We shall embark on a journey for the day!
First things first! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROBIN, wherever you are! This is Robin’s first time unable to celebrate her birthday in a hundred years, but we shall proceed to celebrate anyway!
We will make up for this later in the month!!
She decided to visit her work friends in Arizona. It was a ladies’ weekend! But all is OK; she is flying in Saturday morning to be with us at the Candlelight Theater for the annual Christmas play!
It looks like a happy group!
The weather outside is frightening! There was so much fog that we could not see the mountain behind our home! We’ve got a Weather Alert saying the fog will be thicker than a bowl of oatmeal until at least noon! I guess the sun is sleeping in today—maybe it’s having a lazy brunch with the clouds!
It looked like a scene from “The Birds”… We made Alfred Hitchcock proud!
We departed for the Elks at 10:00 am, stopping to drop off some shirts at the laundry; I must wear red or green for the next three weeks!
We got into storytelling mode at the Elks, and I forgot to take pictures. All was normal; we had Bob Z, George, Will, and Bob C with us today. Iris was playing bridge, and Bill was preparing for the funeral tomorrow. They had a chili size on the specials, and I went for that; it was filling and quite good!
“I am watching you two!”
From the Elks, we went to see my cardiologist and got his reading on the test last week. He says I am good for another 100,000 miles, but I might need a valve job in a few years (no, serious).
When the doctor talked about diet, Mary wasn’t buying my excuses!
We finally got home just before dark. It was cold (in the low 50s), so we got into our jammies and watched TV. The spot top-left is the Moon and it is even cold tonight!
The Sun was setting, and the mercury was falling!
Mary fixed a small dinner for herself—if you can call a single slice of cold turkey and a scoop of mashed potatoes “dinner.” She figured it was all about balance: one food group was technically from an animal, and the other was… well, sticky.
Chef Mary: redefining fine dining, one weird meal at a time!
I was still stuffed from lunch so I went out front and played with the outdoor lighting, and now the red and green travel around the house!
We have lights everywhere!
It’s more telling in a movie file!
We settled in to watch a movie, and then….. the lights went out! I forgot to tell Mary that Edison planned an outage from 8:00 pm until 6:30 am! Oops! My bad!! Mary said, “No, YOU AWFUL!”
We turned on the ever-available flashlights, stared at each other, and headed to bed.
I took Scout outside to search for those pesky elephants before getting under the covers, hoping we would NOT get a blizzard tonight. Scout kept laughing under his breath!
“Ha Ha Ha, I have a fur coat!!”
By 8:30 pm, we were warm and snuggled under the sheets, ready for a cozy night. Our flashlights were ready like trusty sidekicks, just in case Mother Nature decided to throw a surprise party with her midnight calls!
