Christmas catchup

[derekl_1963]

Sorry for being a bit late... Random Christmas notes;

Sadly, I was not feeling well on Christmas Eve, so we had to skip Matt & Laura's Christmas Eve dinner. This was a huge bummer, as it's a big part of our holiday traditions.

Brenda and I being the people we are, half our gifts to each other were books. :) I gave her several on calligraphy and illumination, and one on Sumi-E painting. She gave me one on the history of Polaroid, one on photographic philosophy, one on the history of A&P (the grocery chain), and a cookbook by Ming Tsai. She also gave me a cool figure of Dr Teeth and a really nice bottle of scotch. (My scotch collection is growing... should post an inventory soon.)

We'd debated doing a turkey for Christmas, because being away at the family reunion at Thanksgiving meant no turkey leftovers... But ultimately, we did a ham because a turkey dinner is too much work on Christmas Day and a turkey doesn't give me the ham bone and stock I'll need for Hoppin' John on New Years Day.

Christmas was briefly white, just enough to muck up the roads a little, then turned to rain.

Breakfast today will be a big ol' slab of the pumpkin pie Brenda made (with the filling from scratch), since I was too full to have any yesterday.

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[the-thread-lady.livejournal.com]

We missed you two on Christmas Eve. We left a wee gifty for you there.