MEEERRRRYYY CHRISTMASSSS

Uncle M just threw a rotten eggplant over the bluff at a neighbor on the beach. Merry Christmas!


Yesterday night Rosie saw how clear the sky was and how bright the stars were and let out a hoot of astonishment. I asked her if she was trying to communicate with an owl and we all had a good laugh at her expense until she was answered by a real great horned owl in the trees behind us.

Another nice thing:
Every time it snows I check the snow to see if it is good snowman snow but I am usually disappointed. Not yesterday! Yesterday's snow was the PERFECT snowman snow. As soon as we arrived here I checked the snow and then got right to snowman making with Sister. So great. We could even do that classic snowman making move where you roll the ball of snow and it packs onto itself. I can't even remember the last time I was in snow that did that.

One bad thing: my boots leak.

I'm reading All Things Bright and Beautiful. I've been thinking about how I get to read it when I come here for months and now I'm here and now I am reading it. I liked it a lot when I was little but now I like it even more because when I got to the part where all the sheep are down with calcium deficiency I thought about milk fever and when I got to the part where the cows have mastitis I thought about mastitis and when I got to the part about how nice it is to snuggle up with your wife when you're cold I thought about snuggling. I would say that everybody should go out and read this book right now, but I think I'm a lot more interested in the life of a farm vet than the rest of you. I should go and read more of this book right now. That is what should happen. I think I will do that. Right now.

Today

Today I half woke up as Bej left for class. He fed me some hummus on bagel before he left while I was still partially asleep and under a bunch of blankets. Then I slept for a few more hours before fully waking up and finding that the ice cream I made a few days ago wasn't all gone. It was pretty much all gone by the time I was done with it. Next I went to the mail room when it opened to get my packages. I checked my mailbox last night and saw that I had three package slips but it was too late to get them so I had been thinking about them for hours. I thought one of them would be from Mother because she told me to be on the lookout for a package but when I looked at the return addresses they were all from book places. I was a little disappointed but thought oh well at least my textbooks are showing up on time, but then imagine my surprise when I opened one of them and found a popup Eric Carle advent calendar. After I set up my advent calendar I started a new painting and painted for most of the afternoon. Then Bej came over and looked at sunspots and I made a necklace out of a little sheep from the advent calendar. Av and I made an Indian feast for dinner and it was the most delicious thing I had ever eaten. He made chickpeas and flat bread (because my naan wasn't ready yet) and I made lentils and naan (that wasn't ready in time but is ready now). A and Av and Da and I all ate it and said our three good things that happened to each of us today, as is our family tradition during dinner. Two nights ago I hosted a dinner party that ended up getting pretty busy and wild and everyone there did their three things. I don't remember when we started the tradition but I thoroughly enjoy it. For dessert we had some ice cream chocolatey thing that was outrageous as Av and his mom would say. His mom visited with her friend yesterday and took Av and Mel and A and I out to lunch. I'm really into his mom and her friend. After dinner I made my naan and then went with Mel to hang out on the third floor of s where everybody sits around and does art and plays music. There are always people knitting or drawing or painting or coloring or playing guitar or doing something creative. Pretty neat. Then I came home. Now I'm here.