Friday, December 25, 2015 Guerneville CA.
Tiny bit of house work
I had a few hours to kill this morning before it was time to go to my brother Berry’s house for Christmas. So I puttered around the house and tidied up here a there a little. My house could use a lot of tidying up. :O)
On the half shell
Eventually I went next door to my brother Tom’s house to see if I could get a ride to Barry’s house a little later. He and his girl friend were enjoying some fresh oysters on the half shell, so I joined them in a couple.
Dessert sounds good
Shortly after that, we headed out to my brother Barry’s about a half hour drive. On the way over, Dominique, Tom’s girlfriend, who is a French pastry chef or something like that and goes by the name of Dominique’s Sweets, told me about the lemon pie she made with no corn stuff in it and a scrumcious chocolate cake she made, that unfortunately had an ingredient I couldn’t handle, darn.
And the wine flowed
We sat around and visited for a bit and then had a great dinner. My brother Barry makes excellent home made wine of the highest caliper, so things were merry.
Everything was delicious, but I was limited to a very good corn less ham and of course a big piece of the lemon meringue pie. I also had a couple of cups of coffee out of Barry’s three thousand dollar espresso machine. I’m not sure it cost that much, but that’s what his wife Mary Jane said. :O) She said she would rather he fixed the furnace, but he likes his wood stove better and says she uses the new coffee machine a lot. The coffee was good whatever the cost.
Then Mary Jane played Santa. Some real friendly neighbors dropped by and chatted for a bit and then we were all full and partied out.
Lots of lights
On the way out the door, I noticed all the neighbors and Barry too had all their Christmas lights on and it was quite a show. I should have taken some pictures, but just plain didn’t think of it, even though I had a camera in my pocket.
I was awarded some ham and the last piece of the lemon pie to take home with me. Yummmmm.
Happy holidays to all my readers, hope you are all enjoying yourselves.
Merry Christmas.