December 2008

Ohhhhhh, love the new theme page …. didn’t take me long to select it this time…wasn’t like a I usually do and almost make it a new vocation….Brett says butter, butter, butter in yesterday’s recipe…speaking of butter..holy Iowa State Fair butter cow, batman, I gained 5 pounds over the holidays…I knew I had gained something Read more

Sooo…you start out with two piece of foil per person…you have fileted trout, bacon,sliced raw potatoes, carrots, onions and any other veg your heart desires…at the stream, we also used turnips….potatoes, carrots, onions on the bottom, you wrap a strip of bacon around each of the filets and put them on top…a few pats of Read more

  My Mother, Helen 90 years old Her Sister, my aunt 92 year old Aunt Frances His mother, Avis 82 years old The Table Jenny before everyone arrived – learning wii fit Playing wii games Read more

Christmas officially over at our house.  Today he took down the tree and put all of the boxes back in the storage cubby…I found the tart burner that I put away and couldn’t find so everything is back to normal…well, with the exception of Kate’s room but it looks normal or like it did when Read more

50-27 retired as of this morning at 0200.  27 and I started 3 months apart back in 84.  As he has always reminded me, he is a couple of years my junior.  His final 10-42 or ending tour of duty, affected me like a stab in the heart…it’s not that we haven’t had our issues…we Read more

Ice storm….I worked the last two…so it is a good thing that I’m home…usually the power goes out for several days…I’m trying to stay optimistic but it is very hard.  I’m trying to get sleepy…Tonight is my first night back…I took a nap early overnight and forced myself to get up…only wish I was that Read more

Kitchen clean – Christmas dishes put away…tablecloths washed and packed away, watched Y & R and caught an episode of As the World Turns and Guiding Light…put together my new cordless phone…1 piece of pumpkin pie down the tube – 2 pieces of chocolate and damn…that ham is good.  Read more

Had a spoonful of oyster dressing and a sliver of ham…better than yesterday…. Read more

I can’t quit eating pumpkin bread…… Read more

Mom was on her best behavior…I actually had compassion for her.  Aunt Frances was a holy terror….she didn’t shut up from the minute she was wheeled in the door until the minute she was wheeled out.  I don’t know if she knows that she was the sole owner of every opinion she spouted…I began cringing Read more