Life After Windbird, Day 131: Three More Days
Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Weather: Mostly Cloudy; High Temp 40, Low 29 degrees F
Location: At Home at The Studio, Falmouth, MA
There are three more days until Christmas, so I spent my afternoon scurrying about in grocery stores and doing a little last minute shopping. I will spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with Heather and family and I volunteered to do most of the food shopping for our holiday meals. I have one more store run in the morning, and then the food shopping should be done should be done. Xfinity also comes in the morning to try and figure out why I don’t have a cable signal and I want to bake some cranberry bread with the last of the cranberries we harvested from the bogs in Heather and Jed’s neighborhood and honey harvested from Heather’s bee hives. So tomorrow will be a busy one. Heather and Jed both work through Friday, but tomorrow is the last day of school for the boys. I have invited them over for dinner and to spend the night tomorrow night. I only extended the invite late this evening and have not heard back yet as to their reply. But hopefully, Sam, Jonah, and Ollie will come spend tomorrow night and then we will spend part of our day on Friday baking the last of the Christmas cookies. We have already made lots of thumb-print sugar cookies, but we have more to make. On Christmas Eve we will deliver baked Christmas goodies to neighbors and friends.
I didn’t mention in last night’s log that Heather and Jed’s furnace developed a major leak last night at the end of solstice celebration. The spraying water in the basement looked a little like a fireworks display! Heather and Jed got the water supply turned off that goes to the furnace which meant they had no hot water in the house and no heat. But they have a very nice wood stove that keeps them cozy in this kind of weather. The furnace repair guys came today and spent the entire day. None of us wants to see the bill for that work before Christmas, but tonight they do have heat and hot water once again. Seems like there is no end to the drama around here!
