Merry Christmas to all

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Christmas, cooking, family, gifts, good day, postaday2012

Merry Christmas everyone! Today was a grand day of just the four of us and Jack. We had no idea that Jack loved Christmas as much as he does, it is only his third one so maybe he was still shy last year or having Rex still around made a difference. But today he played with every single one of his squeaky toys for hours, he was a riot today.

We decided on lobster newburg for our Christmas dinner and so I spent a good part of the day making lobster stock; cooking the lobsters, chopping the vegetables, straining out all the solids and then reducing it but in the middle right after boiling the lobsters and starting the stock. My hubby came to the rescue. I needed my hubby’s strong hands and arms to pick the carcass apart and get the succulent meat out so that I could get the shells into the basic mireproix to get the essence of the lobster into a stock. Not only was my hubby Santa these two days but he was also lobster man.

What’s your skill?

I have always wanted to learn how to play piano. My heart yearns to make music but my fingers and lack of ability make it a yearning that will never be satisfied. Along the same lines, my heart yearns to be able to race at break neck speed across the meadow on the back of a horse. That is another yearning that will never be fulfilled. I have been on horseback twice, thrown twice and I am too scared to go faster than a walk; moreover I am highly allergic to horses. I know because I used to help take care of my mother-in-law's horse, Nutmeg, when she was alive. She was a good horse and I got up on her but after being thrown in the past, it just made me too aware of the long way down it actually was from on top of a horse's back and how you can do some serious damage once your body connects with the ground.

So those are two skills that I would love to possess in my fantasy realm. My piano playing would answer the call of music in my heart and the call for speed would be taken care of by me racing all along the countryside on the back of a mighty stallion like the one in the books "The Black Stallion".