I'm Back Again, but Not on Aruba

Well, I'm back from my respite again but I'm going to wait until next post to get back to Aruba. It has been a pretty eventful past few days because I decided to have everyone over for the Super Bowl. AS always, everyone wanted to know what to bring to share. However, I was determined not to have as much to eat as we usually do, so Betty and I decided to have hot dogs and chili. However, by the time everyone had arrived, we again had a tremendous amount of food. What I had told everyone was if they felt they needed to bring something, then bring a snack to share. Wrong thing to do. Diane & Dave brought meatballs in a really good sauce, as well as, chicken wings. Mary made deviled eggs, at least 18 whole eggs) and brought salsa and chips, Mo brought peperoni and crackers, Frannie brought her "homemade" cookies (directly from Pepperidge Farms) and Karen from next door brought some cookies and Creme De Menthe. When Shirlee called and asked what to bring I told her to forget it, she didn't need to bring anything.

There was so much food again it was unbelievable. Diane blamed it on me because she says I go overboard, so I ask you, what do you think? I had grilled hot dogs and sausage, homemade chili, salt potatoes, I baked bread and made the"Wool Growers Restaurant" dip, some guacamole, a peanut butter chiffon pie and a cheery-cheese pie. I really don't think that was out of bounds. Oh, yeah, I had a lot of corn tortillas so I made chips out of them also. So what do you think?

Early in January, we had gone to Dave & Diane's to celebrate Dave's birthday. Diane was adamant about NOT bringing gifts, but whenever we say that to celebrate both Betty's or my birthday, they always bring something. Always something nice for Betty, and something to try and embarrass me (I don't know why). Well, to make a long story short, I was feeling bad, not really, about not giving Dave anything so I decided I would give him a framed photo of himself. Mary took it with my camera a week ago yesterday when we all went to diner. Dave had tried to delete it but I wouldn't tell him how, so I put a comment on it, printed it and then framed it. As soon as I had gathered everyone in the TV room I gave it to Dave and he instantly knew what it was. He tried to keep others from seeing it, but I was having none of that. So he had to share it with everyone. I'm going to share it now, but only as a small image.

I made it small so you really couldn't see it.

After Dave had shared his picture with everyone, Mary pipes up as tells everyone she had found something that she wanted to give to me. She had called Betty and told her she had found something really embarrassing for me and said she was going to give it to me in front of everyone. Of course, Betty was all for that so she hands me this bag with a box in it. When I opened the box, this is what I found:



Personally, it is so true I don't know why she thought it would embarrass me. I loved it and it is now on our little desk in the TV room.



I guess that's enough for today, but I promise to get back to Aruba on the next post. We ahve a least a couple of more days there so stay tuned.