The Days after Christmas

[IAboy]

So now the Christmas season is finally over. So how was it? My family and I had a wonderful time. We had a white Christmas, my three year old is now becoming the next Food Network Chef of the year, and the biggest hit of the season came when my oldest got his Gameboy Advance. That was the best. Wife and I found some "together" time as well. You gotta love bathrooms and doors that lock. SO tell me about your Christmas... both the nice and the naughty.

Dan

 

[SlickTony]

Whaddayamean the Christmas season is over? Sure, we have to go back to work, but remember, Christmas has 12 days in it, culminating in Twelfth Night, or Epiphany.

Our Christmas was fine. I got more presents than anybody else in my family, but that's because I'm easy to shop for. The dinner turned out fine. We invited a friend for Christmas dinner, a guy my husband plays tennis with, to eat Christmas dinner with us, as his wife, who is a nurse, had to work on Christmas day. He liked everything, although between you and me, if I had it to do all over again, I'd have given the turkey another half hour. The turkey itself was fine, and made some excellent gravy, but the onions in the stuffing were a tad crunchier than they ought to have been.

We had typical southern weather for Christmas--it was around 80 at the hottest part of the day. As far as I'm concerned, it could stay like this all winter long, as long as we had just a few days of frost in order to put down the fleas. Otherwise, you find yourself having to put flea treatments on the cats in the middle of the winter. So much for the detractors of global warming; we never had to worry about fleas on the cats in the winter when I was coming up.

As I mentioned, I had to go back to work the day after Christmas. Under other circumstances, I'd have preferred to have the day after Christmas off, rather than Christmas Eve, which I did have off instead, but this year it worked out fine for me. Ordinarily, I don't entertain; my family and my son's buddies don't count. I am a pathologically bad housekeeper, so I spent Christmas Eve day cleaning.

And then the owner of my company decided to let everybody go home at 3:00. Since I'd gotten to work via the bus, I called my husband and had him come pick me up. We were without our son, as he was dogsitting for the guy who'd eaten Christmas dinner with us, because he and his wife went down to Bradenton to be with her folks, after he'd picked her up from work.

That was a trip. These people have two dogs, a female Min Pin and a male Lab/Shepherd cross. The latter is about six times the size of the former. The Min Pin is in heat. Our friend was going to take her with them to Bradenton, but then recollected that there was a buttload of presents in the back of their car and whoever was riding shotgun would have to have a dog on his/her lap, so he left both dogs in my son's care. He (our friend) had shown us how to put an improvised diaper made out of a dish towel and duck tape on the dog; other than that it was a case of eternal vigilance.

So here was our innocent boy--the people who attended the Florida Lit-together last year will remember him--having to act as Morals Police to two lust-crazed dogs. The day after Christmas he called to tell me that he'd gone to PetSmart and picked up some real diapers for dogs and planned to expense them. Later while we were dining at Pisco's, a Peruvian restaurant, and just on the point of paying up, he called again and said that the diapers weren't working as well as he'd hoped. I asked him if he wanted us to come over. He said "Please!" so we did.

We got there to find that the Min-Pin had slipped out of her diaper again, and there were sofa pillows all over the living room floor. The decor of this place features a lot of them, and the Lab/Shepherd, in his frustration, had had his way with all of them. I do hope they'll wash...

The trouble with dog diapers is that if the dog has no tail to speak of, they don't stay on nearly as well....I reinforced the diaper with more tape, and we hung around for a while longer and went home.

Today we went to the grocery store and got provender for dinner and went to an arboretum near our neighborhood that I'd heard of via my town's free leftist rag, which we had never been to, and had a nice walk on their two trails. I took some photographs.

Our boy is now back with us. He managed to preserve the dogs' virtue. We have just eaten a steak dinner and are watching Sleeper.

Well, you asked...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

There is no way any of us will top that. ROFLMAO!!!