Merry Merry Christmas, y’all! I hope this finds you well and opening presents and making dinner preparations! I’ll be deviling eggs and bringing my Prime Rib to room temperature in readiness for cooking!
No card today – just a greeting from me and Finn.
Thank you all so very much for a most wonderful year! 🙂
As you sit down to dinner today and give Thanks for the Blessing of this Day and this Season, please remember our men and women in the military. So many of them are spending this day away from their family and friends so that we may be with ours in Peace and safety. Say a little prayer for them, if you please.
I’ll see you tomorrow, my friends.
TTFN
Mary
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Merry Christmas 🎄
Same to you, Susan – thank you! 🙂
Merry Christmas to you!! 🙂
And to you, Lance and the girls! 🙂
Lovely Christmas photo of you and the Man. I will be taking our prime rib out as well and roasting it Paula Deen’s way. It’s always successful every year. We do our deviled eggs for New Year’s day but we will be having shrimp cocktail. Enjoy and give our best to Wayne. Christmas hugs are flying your way!
Same to you and Perry- hugs all around! Enjoy that shrimp cocktail!! 🙂
Merry Christmas to all, from Clara and me out to Colorado! Prayers for your blessed Christmas and peaceful new year. Off to Mass with heartfelt prayers for all those who serve and have served
our country.
Thanks, Mom – and Merry Christmas to you and Clara!! 🙂
Merry Christmas, Mary. I wish you, your husband and Finn a lovely day. Enjoy your meal. I do give my thanks regularly for those brave souls who are there for us.
Thank you so much for that, Kathy – I know it’s appreciated!! Merry Merry Christmas to you and yours!! 🙂
Merry Christmas! Finn is so cute and your tree beautiful! I’m going to give you a wonderful Christmas present and give you another year before next year, your greeting on your tree says 2018…not 🙂
So yeah you get another year!!! Hugs! And have a Happy New Year (2018) too!
LOL – it sure does! I must be wishing my life away! Thanks for the year back, Sherry! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, too! 🙂
And a Very Merry Christmas to you as well. Does Finn get the âleftoversâ, that is the prime rib scraps? Kalvin, dog across the road, showed up on my doorstep last night as the family started to arrive. I think he has figured out that when there are lots of cars there is also FOOD! He LOVES scraps, and his family has given me permission to give them to him. So, this morning when he came over (I think he comes when his peeps leave) he got a plateful of scraps and one smoked Iowa Chop bone, with some meat still on it. Cold here, got up to 14 degrees. Windy too, snow on the ground. Sunny early, then clouded up around 2. Colder from now on. By New Years, below zero. Good time to stay in and make cards. Your tree is lovely and reminds me that my 4 yr old G Granddaughter had 3 things she told Santa she wanted: A candy cane, a princess dress and a ride on Rudolph! This santa couldnât do the Rudolph thing, but I did make her a dress that she called her âprincess dressâ (pink corduroy with little gold dots and a fur bolero) and put candy canes in her stocking. Again, thanks for the greeting and Merry Christmas. Julie
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He gets limited scraps – in this case he’ll get the bones off the rib- one at a time. Christmas will last a little longer for him that way! Try to meter the scraps to Kalvin – too much rich stuff can cause liver issues! And just FYI – 14…no. Not okay! 🙁 Glad you were able to make a princess dress for your granddaughter! Sounds wonderful and I know she loved it!! Merry Christmas, my friend! 🙂
Have a very Merry Christmas to you and your family! =)
Thanks so much, Tam – same to you and yours! 🙂
Oh, he mostly gets bones, and doled out one at a time, one a day. There were a few peas on the plate, some carrots and the bone. Oh, yeah a couple of mandarin orange peels. He didn’t eat those!
And, yeah, it is still 2017! Merry Christmas anyway! 🙂
LOL – I don’t think even Finn would eat the orange peels! The ponies would, though! Sounds like Kalvin is a lucky guy! Thanks, Julie! 🙂