L.Ann, I would be excited to see the Clydesdales but tuba Christmas--pass on that, LOL.
I feel for your dsister, Bama!
That salad sounds really good. I bought a head of iceberg lettuce a week or two ago, and am loving the crunchiness it adds to sandwiches. Much as I like leaf and boston lettuce, nothing matches iceberg for that good crisp crunch.
trissie, Bama might be on to something. Is there someone in the village that could help you with wrapping at their house? You have plenty of cookies to offer in compensation.
I don't know any party games myself, I think that this dog training exercise would be really fun as a party game. It's meant to show owners that their dogs do not understand human words, so you have to be patient with them and help them to understand. Divide the players into groups of five or so. Each group chooses one member to be the Dog. Dogs all leave the room while instructions are given.
Each group is given a written set of instructions that they have to train the Dog to do, and a bag of candy. My group's instructions were: The Dog must turn around once (pirouette) and then walk to the window.
The trainers are not allow to say a word once the Dogs come back in the room. They can only encourage their Dog to do the right thing by giving them a candy, and withholding candy when the Dog gets it wrong.
We had a short time to discuss strategy. We decided that we would start by giving our Dog a candy when she started turning to the left. After that, she would have to turn to the left more and more until she was doing the pirouette reliably. Then we would put our hands behind our backs and stare at the window. When she would turn to the window to see what we were looking at, we would give her a candy. Every move she made in the direction of the window, we would trot along beside her and give her candies.
LOL, I wasn't thinking of making the outing optional for the teenagers, trissie.
Hi, Peaches
Thursday
Misc tidying
Put away dry dishes
Filled dw to run later
Extracted new coffee container from back of walk-in closet
Changed out kitchen garbage
CUOP
Cut up pills for Germane
Gave Germane her Benedryl
Emptied waste paper basket
Checked the weather: -22 C windchill, and I can actually see the snow being blown across my balcony and the trees waving. Now I’m glad that her appointment was yesterday because at least it was warmer for her.
Cleaned up after dog
Cleaned glasses
Put away dry laundry
Swept
Tidying
Spiffed self
Got delivery of Germane’s dog food–hurray!
It seems to me that I must have gotten more than that done, but I can't remember what.
Consequences sounds like a funny game, Kittykatt.
I'm sorry about the no show on getting your table fixed. Luckily you have a back up plan.
Good job, Jude. Show Freddie how it's done!
) and it didn't take her long to get into our routine, mostly by copying the other two. (They both "sit" for their supper.) When asked, we used to joke that the only word she didn't understand was "No!" 
