A Feast for Thanksgiving

Scott and Chris came in on Tues evening; unfortunately, Philly had a bad rain storm hovering over the city, causing a few flight delays and cancellations. Rick finally got Scott at 12:15 am on Wed, and made it home at 1 am or so. Wed noonish we picked up Jason and went over to Reading Terminal Market to have lunch. It's an indoor market, with fresh veg and seafoods, delicious breads and cookies, and lots of sandwiches to choose from. Kind of resembles an outdoor street market, only indoors.

On Thurs the men folk got up for the Turkey Bowl, a tradition they can never miss, no matter where we are - returned covered in mud, due to all the rain the day before. It was not too cold, high 50s, and sunny. We had the traditional Tday dinner: turkey, ham (my sons insist on this), rolls, dressing, corn, green bean casserole, baked candied sweet potatoes, smashed potatoes (I use yukon golds, they are my fav), baked beans with lots of carmelized onions, cranberries, pickles and olives, and pumpkin pie.

Fri we went to 2 malls, and various other stores, trying to catch some Black Fri deals, of which we found few. I, for some perverted reason, have more fun watching the youtube videos of beatdowns and fracases that occur among the bargain seekers. Rick, Scott, and I came back early (3pm) and Jason and Chris drove back to the mall to finish it off, arriving back home at 7:30pm.

Sat morning - just got back from dropping Jason off at the airport; Chris and Rick just went to the shooting range. Still plenty of Christmas movies to watch, turkey and ham to finish off. Tomorrow we step on the scales to read the bad news.

Home again

I returned to Eagle Mt on Thurs. Took the shuttle up and got to Springville at 7pm and Paige and Stella picked me up. On Fri we went out and met Scott to do some shopping, ate lunch at Olive Garden (Stella ordered mac and cheese and enjoyed it), then went to Stella's Starlets program. Riverwoods, an outdoor mall, was doing a preChristmas lighting ceremony that her little singing group was singing at. It was quite adorable.

Church on Sunday, we left at 5pm to drive to NYC. Rick had a meeting on Monday and I decided to go with him. It was fun. I'm going to start going on the short 1-2 day trips like that.

While the cat's away the mice shall play...

or something. It might be who's sitting in mama bear's chair while mama bear is gone. I'm still in St George, so someone evidently feels quite comfortable getting in and on my stuff.

Fall at home in Lansdale

I love burning bushes. We had 2 huge ones in Limestone, and a row of minatures in Danville. The ones around our townhouse are at their prettiest.

St George

I decided I needed to come to St George and see how mom was doing.
Yesterday I got up at 3:45 am to catch the flight; unfortunately I had a 3 1/2 layover in Denver - the bad news of last minute flying. Scott picked me up at 1:50pm, we drove to Paige's and I played with the little girls until 4:00, then we headed for St George. Got to mom's at 8pm. She looked good to me. Scott stayed 15 min and headed for home. I do have a good son.

Got up this morning and walked 2 1/2 miles, then came back and had breakfast. Mom got up around 10:30, showered and then she ate. I went out shopping to get a few groceries, check on the price of some wheelchairs, and get some dried prunes at Costco. These are delicious - I'm not kidding they taste like candy. Get some and see if you agree.

If you find this entry boring - sorry, but I'm also using this as a kind of journal, so some of my blogs will be pure boredom.

Sunny sky

Today is a sunny, beautiful day, with the temp supposed to be at 68. The snow has been gone for awhile, but still seeing all the damage that was done to the trees. Most everybody here has power back, but some were without for a few days. It was bad because most of the trees still had leaves, which made a bed for the snow and caused limbs to break. All the damage to the trees was sad to see, but the falling limbs brought down power lines. It was a heavy wet snow, so that made it worse.

We only lost power for 45 min (we didn't know it tho). Rick and I were driving home, so we called a neighbor to go over and look in our basement. But no rain, so nothing to cause huge amounts of water anyway. We need to get a battery backup on that sump pump, now that we know that with lots of rain, it will fill the sump pump area. And with no power, no sump pump to get it out. During the hurricane, when our basement flooded, we already had about 20 inches of rain in just a few short weeks, so the ground was saturated and more than ready to cause problems.

This storm happened 2 weeks ago anyway.

Nano and Papa...

as seen by Stella. Note the 2 little tuffs of hair on Papa, because "that's all he has."