Well, what a week!
This is Stacy. She is Fred Olvr's dog and he went to Michigan on Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving with his sister. So, we got to drive him to the airport AND we got to take care of Stacy. She is a sweet dog, if not a bit energetic. Every time either Steve or I got up from a sitting or laying position, she was right there wondering "what are we going to do?!?!?!" And, yet, she would never stay in the backyard on her own to run around. Someone had to be out there with her or it was "I want to go in the house". She and Linus were fine together. Sometimes she wanted to play and poor old Linus just couldn't drum up the energy to do much more than stand and wag his tail. Sally and Stacy have finally reached an unsettled truce but mostly Sally growls when Stacy gets too close. Fred comes home around noon today and I can finally take the sheets off the couches. (Stacy is pretty hairy)
We had nice weather (finally) early in the week and Steve and spent time in the backyard continuing to mulch leaves and pull up dead stuff. Stacy LOVED being out with us then. She would gallop from one end of the yard to the other.
I finished up my gift books projects and was able to order them at 50% off on Black Friday. That means that 95% of my Christmas presents are now done!!!!YAY!
Wednesday was full of preparations for Thanksgiving. I baked two gluten-free pies - a pecan and an apple crisp. I have discovered that if I use a 1 to 1 GF flour mix and a crust recipe that calls for vinegar and egg, I can make an amazing crust. Elise arrived that evening, much to Sally and Linus's delight. Stacy barked at her at first but then decided she was all right.
Thursday - Thanksgiving - was very nice. We had fourteen people in our tiny house! All six Southerlands, Elise, Beckie, Steven and Tamara and they brought Melanie and we also had Sam Carpintero with us. We shuffled living room furniture around and moved out musical instruments and then moved the dining table into the living room with all three leaves inserted. Eleven people sat there and we set up a card table in the kitchen for Lucy, Quinn, and Larkin. And there was SO MUCH FOOD! It was pretty overwhelming. And, the time went so quickly. Before we knew it, everyone was saying goodbye and just Steve, Beckie, Elise and I were left to play a game of Clue and a very shortened game of Trivial Pursuit.
I love this photo of Steven and Linus....things were just too crowded in the kitchen and Linus kept getting under foot....
Friday, my 67th birthday, was horrible! I awoke to vertigo and nausea and spent most of my day in bed! Thankfully, I have a prescription for dizziness and I took it right after I woke up but it didn't start to help until the afternoon. I managed to eat two freeze pops, some crackers, and, by night time, I ate a piece of pecan pie. I will be contacting my doctor this week to see what we can do about this problem. Happily, I have only experienced it twice before (once in Phoenix and once here about 18 months ago) but it would be nice to know the reason why I have these episodes.
Saturday I felt wiped out so I did very little. I managed to take down Thanksgiving decor and water my plants. Part of my birthday present was that we bought tickets to the Saint Louis Symphony for that evening and, happily, I felt up to going. And, it was just magnificent! We heard a Rossini overture, the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Rachmaninoff and Respighi's Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome. SO amazing.
I will miss my pretty gourds and Thanksgiving stuffies. But, I have plenty of cute Christmas stuff, too. Notice that teensy gourd in front of the teddy bear. That is real and so is the mini pumpkin next to him.
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