Ruth's Life is Good: Thursday 12-21 First Day of Winter and Christmas

Friday, December 22, 2017

Thursday 12-21 First Day of Winter and Christmas

Winter is here!!!!

Today was the first day of winter. It was another beautiful cool sunny day. The temperature stayed in the high 60s.

I got up a little earlier than normal, 7:00 instead of 8:00. Larry had a follow up appointment at 8:30 with the dentist to see when he could get the crown for his implant. When we showed up Larry saw a truck that looked like our friend Louis's but when we got in the waiting room he wasn't there. We were a little early but they took Larry right in. The dentist said everything looks great and the implant was ready to get a crown. As he was leaving he saw Louis in a dental chair and stopped to say hi to him. He made an appointment in February for the crown.

Going to the dentsit

On the way home we stopped by Harbor Freight. Larry had received a book of coupons in the mail and he found a couple of things he wanted, blue gloves and a plastic case. He has a Genesis Impact Driver that did not come with a case, he measured the driver and the advertisement indicated it would fit inside their small case. He found the gloves but when he saw the case he thought it looked too small. He picked up the case, took it where the power tools were and tried a similar driver in the case, the case was too small. He's going to continue looking for a case. But at least he got the gloves he wanted.

The next stop was Mister Car Wash to wash the truck.

We're plan to leave for the Rio Grande Valley on Monday so the last stop was at the post office to stop our mail. When we got in the parking lot it looked busy but Larry wasn't gone long, he said there were only a couple people besides him in the post office.

Louise has been on vacation for the past two weeks and she has to go back to work tomorrow. She has to work on Christmas so we had decided to celebrate Christmas today. Larry needed to do a couple of things for her while we were at her house so we went over around 2:00. First he installed a light switch for the kitchen light so her Alexa could turn it on and off. It took longer than he expected considering the electrical box wouldn't let him put the switch in. He had to modify the switch to get it to fit. Now her Alexa can turn on and off most of the lights in the house. The next project was to install a water filter in her kitchen, that didn't take long at all.

After Larry finished the projects we celebrated Christmas. Louise made a relish tray with cheese, pepperoni, ham, sweet pickles and olives and deviled eggs for appetizers. She also made fudge, raisin cookies and peanut brittle to snack on while waiting for dinner. For dinner we had chili, Fritos and brown and serve rolls. We waited until later for dessert. Yesterday afternoon I made some apple fritter cupcakes for dessert and Louise bought a pecan pie. It took us a couple of hours to open all our gifts. We received a lot of wonderful gifts. We gave Louise a new electronic thermostat that will also work with Alexa so before we left Larry installed it. We had a super evening celebrating Christmas with Louise and Alice.