Enjoying the Sludge
I sigh a contended sigh as I sit here in the sunshine on a Sunday morning, skipping church....doh! But you know, sometimes you just gotta relax with a cup of coffee and nowhere to go. Even if it is a cup of sludge from the coffee pot that just turned off after 3 hours of sitting there breaking itself down into acid. This morning, I don't care.
It's been a fun and busy weekend--and it's still going strong. Yesterday morning we took Digby to a 'Puppy Play' hour at the Humane Society--a play date for dogs. Since he's been so shy at his weekly classes, I thought it would be a good idea to get him more socialized at these weekend events. After hiding under the chair for most of the hour, scared to death by wild and crazy--albiet good-natured--dogs doing their thing, the woman in charge suggested we stay for the next group, the 'featherweight' class. So in comes all of these teeny dogs, and pretty much right away Digs came out from hiding and latched on to this other little guy, Charlie. I wish I could remember what type of dog he is, I know some kind of terrier--man was he cute, and the two of them just had a ball. Made a Mommy proud. The owners of Charlie said they would bring him back next Saturday and asked if I'd do the same with Digby...so, Digs has a date! Okay, it's with another boy, but we're all right with that. We're open minded around here. :-)
After that it was back to the house to get ready to host our gourmet group for dinner. For the holiday we decided to have a 'progressive dinner' this time, a first for us. This is where you go from house to house, having different courses at each one. It was a blast! The toughest part was not eating too much at each place so you could actually eat some dinner once you got to the main course. It was fun to see everyone's houses all decorated up. We came back here for gourmet S.O.S. (shit on a shingle) and a round of White Elephant present-giving. For those of you not in the know, that's where you bring a wrapped gift that is your junk but could be someone else's treasure and everyone takes turns picking one. We decide who goes when by drawing numbers. Many people are very cut-throat about this and actually steal gifts back and forth when it's all through, but you know, we're church-goin' folk. We decided to keep things nice. Nobody brought anything really awful anyway, so no one got stuck with anything horrible anyway. Accept maybe the talking snowman we wrapped up and was opened by Rosemarie...she loved it initially but I'm sure after the 100th time of saying in a very annoying sing-songy voice "Come on in, it's cold outside!" she'll soon lose the humor. I know her husband Greg was ready to run over the thing. A successful White Elephant! Yeah!
Tonight, it's caroling. We're so lucky to get a warm day today! It's been so butt-cold lately I was afraid we were doomed. Of course 40 degree weather doesn't exactly feel like Christmas, but....I won't complain!!! Fa la la la laaaaa!
It's been a fun and busy weekend--and it's still going strong. Yesterday morning we took Digby to a 'Puppy Play' hour at the Humane Society--a play date for dogs. Since he's been so shy at his weekly classes, I thought it would be a good idea to get him more socialized at these weekend events. After hiding under the chair for most of the hour, scared to death by wild and crazy--albiet good-natured--dogs doing their thing, the woman in charge suggested we stay for the next group, the 'featherweight' class. So in comes all of these teeny dogs, and pretty much right away Digs came out from hiding and latched on to this other little guy, Charlie. I wish I could remember what type of dog he is, I know some kind of terrier--man was he cute, and the two of them just had a ball. Made a Mommy proud. The owners of Charlie said they would bring him back next Saturday and asked if I'd do the same with Digby...so, Digs has a date! Okay, it's with another boy, but we're all right with that. We're open minded around here. :-)
After that it was back to the house to get ready to host our gourmet group for dinner. For the holiday we decided to have a 'progressive dinner' this time, a first for us. This is where you go from house to house, having different courses at each one. It was a blast! The toughest part was not eating too much at each place so you could actually eat some dinner once you got to the main course. It was fun to see everyone's houses all decorated up. We came back here for gourmet S.O.S. (shit on a shingle) and a round of White Elephant present-giving. For those of you not in the know, that's where you bring a wrapped gift that is your junk but could be someone else's treasure and everyone takes turns picking one. We decide who goes when by drawing numbers. Many people are very cut-throat about this and actually steal gifts back and forth when it's all through, but you know, we're church-goin' folk. We decided to keep things nice. Nobody brought anything really awful anyway, so no one got stuck with anything horrible anyway. Accept maybe the talking snowman we wrapped up and was opened by Rosemarie...she loved it initially but I'm sure after the 100th time of saying in a very annoying sing-songy voice "Come on in, it's cold outside!" she'll soon lose the humor. I know her husband Greg was ready to run over the thing. A successful White Elephant! Yeah!
Tonight, it's caroling. We're so lucky to get a warm day today! It's been so butt-cold lately I was afraid we were doomed. Of course 40 degree weather doesn't exactly feel like Christmas, but....I won't complain!!! Fa la la la laaaaa!
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