View out Linda's back doors
Linda
and I went to Harborside for lunch, meeting her friend, Angie, there. It was
very nice to meet Linda’s friend and she was nice enough to treat us! Speaking
of nice, the kitchen staff was able to dig up some perch for us ladies so we
all three enjoyed a perch plate lunch, with a shared order of onion rings. The
snow was not snow but slush at this point yet and included some deep cold
puddles along the curbs. Yech! From there, we went to Linda’s house to
schnudder.
We
watched a Christmas special she had recorded, while I piggy-backed on her
Internet. No Blue Screen of Death there at all which means I am getting that
only when using the Internet via Verizon and the little card they put in. Rats!
Then we had dinner which she prepared---sloppy joes and cole slaw. Oh yum! Tommy
wanted to watch a certain “Seinfeld” episode which his son in the Chicago area
sent to him. We watched the episode about Festivus, the made-up holiday the
Costanza’s celebrated. Next we watched the episode called “The Chicken Roaster”
which is one of my favorites. Love it!
Linda
and I are watching a movie called “Letters to God” which is about a young boy in
the process of dying from cancer. He would write letters to God and mail them,
and the story goes on to show how the letters affect others who read them. It is
basically about the faith exhibited by this child and those around him, helping
them to understand things like the sudden loss of a husband and slow dying of a
son. The mailman came to faith and is turning his life around through this boy
and his family (the Holy Spirit, of course, doing the work). It is a moving
story and uplifting, just what Linda and I enjoy.
More
entertainment was provided by their two new kittens, brothers, Zeke and Zach,
who are most playful. Everything is a plaything to them, and Tommy showed me
video he took of them terrorizing the Christmas tree when they put it up. He
had even sprayed it with something meant to deter them, but it did nothing it
was trumped up to do. Eventually Tom put the tree up on a table with sticky
substance under the tree which the cats avoid. But that video was a hoot with
them climbing up inside the tree and then back down again.
Linda
took a picture of me all bundled up on the sofa with her Snuggie over me and
two cats on my legs to help keep me warm. Fortunately the area where she lives
was spared the horrors of the storm but periodically the snow and wind did
come. Tom blew the snow tonight to keep the driveways clear so the ice wouldn’t
form under the snow. I don’t miss that business one tiny bit and while it does
look pretty from the window, it does not look so pretty when one is pushing a
shovel!
