Current mood:	happy
Current music:	Pink - Rockstar

The Smell of Napalm in the Morning....
Christmas treated us well here in Eudora. We had a very relaxing day of eating, opening pressies, occasional cocktails and intermittent talking with friends and relatives on the phone. Farmer fried up a ham steak, and I made my world famous galicky mashed potatoes...it was pretty yummy.

In the afternoon we went to a couple friends of ours from the local bar, Buddy and Gina. They invited us over for cocktails after dinner. They live in a trailer park, so that is always an adventure getting down there. Their trailer is very nice, but some of them in the park give trailer courts the reputation they have....

Farmer was home and in bed by 6 PM, so evidently he had a very merry Christmas indeed!

I got Farmer a wine/beer making kit for Christmas. He wants to make his own vintage, so now he has the tools to do it. He just needs to learn how. We'll see how that all goes...it involves reading and paying attention, neither of which are his strong points.



Yesterday morning I attempted to make some potato pancakes out of the leftover mashed potatoes from Christmas. Oy....what a fiasco that turned out to be! Thank god it was in the 60's here yesterday because the windows had to be opened to clear the smoke. =) The potato crispcakes ended up going out on the cement slab in our backyard to feed whatever critter was hungry enough to risk its' life. I should be arrested for animal abuse!

I'm having lots of fun with the camera binoculars. I'm still trying to learn the finer art of picture taking with them. The problem is that it is hard to get nature to cooperate and sit still long enough to capture them. Here's one of our regular visitors...



I have this coming week off! Weee!!! We've decided to head over to Illinois to visit some of Farmers friends and family for the New Years. I think that we have both had enough of Eudora to last us a while, so it will be nice to get away for a titch.

Today I'm on a mission to make some guacamole! Actually, the main purpose of making the guac is that I want to get the seed out of the avocado so I can plant an avocado tree. Both my office and my home needs some greenery to spice things up a bit. I've read all about how to plant the seeds, and it sounds like it will be fairly simple. In the meantime though, Pebs is gonna be enjoying the fruits of his labor on a tortilla chip.



Hopefully the guac won't turn out like the potato pancakes...but one never knows when I'm in the kitchen!

toodles poodles!

xoox,
pebs