OWAV:) 03/20/11, 5am, 22°, full moon

Got the morning started yesterday with "corned beef hash scramble" for breakfast.  Recipe made up as I went along.  Started with fresh diced onions, added leftover grated carrots, potatoes, then diced corned beef, stirred in four beaten eggs and a cup of grated cheese.  Herb set the table, buttered toast, sliced fruit and VOILA, breakfast was served.  Simple, fast and filling.

Ci and Girls

Cienna and snowman

With three inches of new snow on the ground, Cienna was soon outside with the dogs playing in the snow and helping Papa remove snow from the cars, snomobiles and walks.  The three girls left no snow untrodden and had a snowman in the front yard to show for it.  Soon they were all back in the house to dry off and warm up.

Bobi and I spent the time side by side on the sofa, each with a laptop, and her teaching me all she had learned at classes she took in pages, a writing program.  Soon my eyes glaze over and we move on to playing scrabble with Cienna.  Rusty got tools together to install our new kitchen faucet, purchased in Phoenix.  Everyone vacated the kitchen, with Herb standing by, to bring more tools, rags, buckets, whatever is needed.  Now I have a new tall faucet with a sprayer replacing my worn out twenty year old faucet.

I put dinner on the stove, home made chili and tamales slowly simmering until we are ready to eat.  John and Becky arrive with dog, Tate, who has come to play with Trixy and Ginger.  It is a good thing that Rusty has finished with the faucet, because now we have seven people, and three dogs all in the kitchen.  Dogs racing getting reaquainted, people hugging, and laughing.  aaAAAARRRRRGGGGGG!!  Cienna and dogs are sent outside to run off some energy and adults, drinks in hand go to the living room to visit. After John and Becky leave we dish up tamales and chili, add diced onions, grated cheese and sour cream, green salad finishes off the meal and dessert is not needed.

Later in the evening John and Becky return to get Tate and John regales us with stories of Tate, who has a toy monkey, that he places near his food dish and then goes to great lengths to keep the monkey from eating his food.  It is just too funny and we are all laughing until the tears come, must see it in person, I think, to really get the full effect.  Bobi tells them they must get it videoed and submit it to "America's Home Videos".

We finish the evening playing cards, teaching Cienna all the tricks of canasta.  OWAV:)