Pre-Christmas memories made to last
The lights on the tree extend almost all the way to the ceiling in the living room. Mom has the television on in the kitchen. She is digging out some silverware for our dinner. Joe our company is cooking us steak and grilling us some shrimp wrapped in bacon on the grill. Glendon is talking to my mom in the kitchen. She helping prepare the wrapped shrimp for Joe to take to the outside grill. I don't have to go outside to know it is pitch dark. There are probably a whole sky full of stars. The sun set in the evening sky has a soft yellow and orange glow. The glow got smaller until finally it just vanished. This is opposite from what it did this morning. You started with a soft orange merging into a soft yellow and finally bursting into a pure glowing radiant white which sucked most of the cold air out of the morning mist. This is country living. Quiet fills the air with the soft blowing wind. The chickens have their own routine of laying eggs. There is one rooster called Golden Boy and one golden hen which stays outside the fenced in chicken yard. At night, these two birds fly up high in the bushes hidden away from the chicken hawk to sleep at night.The turkey sleeps underneath the tree and he pals around with the chickens during the day. The news has been placed on mute because my cousin Franklin called from San Jose, California. Christmas is a time for relatives to catch up on what is going on. Joe brought us a two pound box of old fashion chocolates. We have caught up on stories about our families past history. Politics was only lightly touched. Joe is fixing us dinner so we will be eating real soon.
posted by seaside @ 3:38 PM
2 Comments:
At 12:12 AM,
Blueherun said…
A Country Christmas, sounds very nice. Did Glendon get a live tree this year?
At 6:00 AM,
Lew said…
Two days ago I planted some of the seed from my original sunflower. I know that the weather will turn cold but I am going to try and maintain them in a pot if the seeds should sprout. I always wondered whether it was better to take the shell off from the seed kernels inside. I figured without the shell that it might be easier for the seed to grow because it wouldn’t to break out of its shell. Logically it sounds good, but I will have to wait and see. I put three of he seeds without he shells into an old laundry bottle cap with some potting soil which was placed in the hollow middle portion of a tree stump where I am growing the marigolds. Surprisingly the marigolds are still growing but I think that the wintry weather in February will get to them. But the sunflower seeds I will bring into the garage for warmth. I plan to transfer them from smaller pot to larger pots as they grow. We have a good selection of empty pots. Once the threat of freezing weather has passed I will transplant them into the ground outside. Of course, all of these plans are based on the assumption that my grand experiment of removing the shells from the sunflower seeds will work. Mike Diamond is back in town. He stopped by last night and we all went to a Texas steakhouse located across the street from Health Central hospital and the Wal-Mart on Colonial. We all had a fine meal. Mike and I got the barbequed pulled pork and Mary got a steak. Mike told me that he is no longer working in Chicago and that he might get lucky and get a three month job here in Orlando. He won’t know about that for a few days yet. He is staying at his apartment but is leaving today to spend the holidays with his relatives in Ft. Lauderdale. He seems to be doing fine. I don’t know how his car manages to hold up with him driving all those miles back and forth across the country. Sounds like you guys are eating pretty good too. Steak and shrimp wrapped in bacon. I think at the restaurants they call that combination “surf and turf”. Surf for the shrimp and turf for the steak. But cooking shrimp on the grill reminds me of a movie by Cheech Marin called Shrimp on the Barby. It is a light comedy that takes place in Australia. I think that they got the title for the movie from a commercial that Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) did for promoting tourism in Australia. At the end of the commercial he says “I’ll put some shrimp on the Barby for ya.” So when your friend Joe cooks the shrimp on the barby again, see if you can get him to talk with an Australian accent. The best way to learn to speak with an Australian accent is to watch all of the Crocodile Dundee movies in succession. Then you will be completely infused with an Australian accent. Right matey? (Just getting in a little practice.) The acting by Cheech Marin of Cheech and Chong fame is quite good. It is a romance story. Cheech Marin also starred in a movie Born in East L.A. which I liked also. It also is a light comedy with a romantic twist. They are both good movies and if you can get them from the library and are in the mood for a light comedy, then they would be worthwhile watching. Have a good day and enjoy your time in Williston. Lew
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