Monday, December 5, 2022

Monday, December 5, 2022

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2003. Mattie was a year and a half old and he was in Los Angeles visiting my parents for the holidays. As you can see, Mattie was multi-tasking, watching a TV show and playing with my dad. That was Mattie! He rarely sat still and ironically he could concentrate on many things at once, and actually be listening. 

Quote of the day: Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. ~ Charles Schulz

Look at this fellow! This is a new location for Sunny to be hanging out. In the ivy by the garden fountain. I figure it is a strategic place to scan the entire backyard for fox, deer, or other critters. 

I bought a ham hock at the farmer's market and decided to make split pea soup for dinner tonight. Guess who wanted to taste the ham? Sunny of course!

I have three more continuing education credits to obtain before I can renew my license. You would think how difficult could that be? Well in this house, close to impossible. Which is why I had to really push over Thanksgiving at night, otherwise, I can make NO headway during the day light hours. 

I had hopes to do an hour of credits today! It never happened. Instead, I had to deal with phone calls and paperwork for my mom's five hour testing procedure on Thursday. She is already getting anxious about it, and for 5 hours, I will need to manage her while at the hospital. Thursday should be hellish. 

This afternoon, when I got back from taking my mom out, Peter and I went for a walk with Sunny. That was the highlight of my day. While walking, we spotted Mattie Moon!

Peter assembled this Christmas carousel. This carousel was his grandmother's. She bought it over 60 years ago, and she eventually gifted it to Peter's mom. I remember it at Peter's parents house every Christmas. Now the tradition has made it to our house. Peter worked on regluing it and getting its parts working again. I ordered candles for it and it is the flame from the candles that cause the fan on top to turn, which then revolves everything inside the carousel.