Just having a quiet evening at home after a lot of driving. My left knee is aching for some reason, probably because of having to sit still in the drivers seat heading back and forth between home base and the various Christmases. My wife is napping in the next room, and I’m contemplating doing something simple with rice for dinner.
We’ve eaten absolutely incredible food for the past few days, and far too much of it. Dinner at my in-laws was a tasty roasted chicken, and some very odd potatoes… They’d become kind of translucent and glutenous when they were whipped, but they tasted perfectly fine. Dinner last night was a sort of buffet affair with ham and vegetables and salads and amazing little stuffing dumplings that my Aunt B brought.
Used to be, we’d do this sort of thing at my Grandma’s house, but since she’s moved into a retirement home, it’s more of an improvised affair. We had a couple of rooms that opened on the indoor pool and courtyard at the hotel, so we just grabbed a couple of tables and had an indoor picnic. At Thanksgiving they did something similar, including inviting all and sundry to come and join us… There were some takers then, but not this time. In fact the hotel was pretty empty. My folks, my sis, my wife, my Aunt B and I closed out the courtyard, playing Flux and Deadwood until the cranky hotel security guy rousted us at about 11pm…