The Week of Christmas

The week of Christmas has been full of many unexpected events  -- auto repair and two trips to Emergency Rooms.   DH Laney was having great difficulty breathing about 1:30 Tuesday morning so we went to the ER.  Diagnosis was Bronchitis on top of his Emphysema. 
Christmas Eve was spent at my daughter Marie’s house eating her great turkey gumbo, pecan-fig pie and opening presents.  One of the more interesting presents was this New Orleans snow globe, complete with shotgun house, red rescue inspection “X”, water line and stuff floating in the water.  Very clever.  Son Tom owns a double shotgun in N.O.


Christmas Morning about 3:00 Miz Ginger, my 14-yr.old Shih Tzu was asking to go outside and then turning right around and going back out.  It took 30 minutes or so to figure out what her problem was and then we realized it was probably a bladder infection so off to the Animal Emergency Clinic because nobody was going to get any sleep.  After she got a shot of cortisone and antibiotic we drove home and watched the most beautiful sunrise (I’m never awake that time of morning).   Dr. said it was okay to sedate her so I could get some sleep before starting to prepare Christmas Dinner which was scheduled for 7:30 that night.  I slept until 11:15am, also unheard of for me.

View Full Album

The food was   wonderful I must say, even if I was one of the cooks.  The green beans with roasted fennel and shallots were especially fine.  Oh, yes and the cranberry-kumquat trifle!.