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November 26, 2007
T-day
What an involved holiday weekend. Not a gigantic amount of activity, since we ended up coming home right after we did the meal action, but still - involved.
Had a nice visit with Viva and her hubby when we got into Lamesa. It's been quite a while since we've seen them, and as usual their place has new stuff and some construction going on. I got to see her new zippy bathroom (so jealous) and the great front steps. It looks like they're going to be extending their kitchen a bit, which I'm sure will be nice when it gets done. They also gifted us with a Ronco rotisserie, which I will probably break in in a week or two with... well something, haven't decided yet.
Then after that we went on to the in-laws' place. As usual we stayed at his brother's place, but this time said brother was actually there. Interesting evening involving some gambling lessons for 3 card poker (or whatever the hell it's called) and the usual amount of conversation that always seems to happen between the two of us. It's weird - I generally hate debating things, I don't care for argumentative discussion, but with the bro-in-law it just works. I can't explain it, but I can have a heated disagreement with the man and still enjoy the conversation. However, this time around I ended up the asshole and now he hates me. I don't see any point in getting into it here (not that I expect him to read this anyway, since he is done with me now) and I haven't figured out how or whether to react to it. Due to that he decided to leave early instead of staying, so he missed out on the T-day grubbage.
The next morning we were actually up and active earlier than noon, so we hit the K-Bob's earlier than we expected. Nice time, good food, and so so lovely to not have to do dishes afterwards. It was nice to get some time in with the ma-in-law and not have to worry about anything other than the visit.
Unfortunately it was snowing when we got up, and the snow got thicker through the meal. We've had this happen before at xmas, and when that happened we ended up having to plow the old car into a big drift in the back yard driveway just to have a place to get it off the road. We didn't want that to happen again, so we had to take off right after we ate. The snow held steady all the way through Lubbock and a ways north of that, but as we got closer to Muleshoe it thinned out until there was nothing but damp ground. Figures. We were supposed to drive down to Mineral Wells after dinner (or the next day, depending on how things timed out) and visit with RAM, and he had fixed up a whole meal for us. Poor guy. So now he has a freezer full of extra food because we got tricked by the snow.
It did snow again, on Friday and Saturday. It covered the ground both times, but melted off pretty quick. We're hoping for more, because we need every bit of wet we can get, but it's nice that it didn't just fuck with us and only dampen the ground.
Posted by damyano at November 26, 2007 12:04 AM