Christmas day
Wow! Christmas Day was fun fun fun! My friend and attorney, David and family, along with their family extensions and friends, arrived from Phoenix for Christmas dinner and festivities. The dinner was spectacular (if I do say so myself) and the guests were loaded up with Christmas cheer. The kid’s were funny, witty, and full of it!!!. Ari, Jane, (Ari’s girlfriend from Mass.) and Ari’s sis, Sarah, are the 19 to 23 year old age group of guests and they are insightful and filled with life and wonder. Ari and Jane live in L.A. and work in the entertainment business. Their stories were telling and delightful about the film industry and their perception of it. After dinner, they all went into Prescott and enjoyed the wondrous lights of the town square, along with . . . (of course) an Irish toddy at the famous Whiskey Row.
Danny and I have been watching the entire seven seasons of the “Soprano’s” for the Christmas/New Years respite. What a great series. I never watched it while it was on television, so we bought it for Christmas, and we’ve really gotten into the Badda Bing thingy of the “family”. Honestly now . . . can the real mob families of today be as violent as the Sopranos? If so, yikes! Those guys kill people (usually someone they know) then go home and eat dinner? Maybe I really don’t want to know! I guess I never paid much attention to mob families and their happenings before. I have read the books about the Capone’s and other East Coast mob families from the twenties and thirties but wow! This is in living color? We’re into season two and we’re into the actors and their problems, along with Tony and his ever changing gang of mobsters and wannabe’s. What a series.
We had snow a few days before Christmas, but it went off in a day. The Mingus Mountains around our valley are covered in white snow capped peaks. It’s quite beautiful.
The dogs have a bunny to play with that has taken up residents in our back yard. They think of it as a play toy that they chase when they go outside. Lady Bug got caught in the fence the other day, trying to get through and chase Bunny. She was half way through, shoving her little body to the max, trying to get through the slatted fence, but alas, she wasn’t small enough. It took some effort to pull her back through the fence to safety. Might be time for us to do something else with the fence so she won’t try squeezing through again. Danny bought rabbit food and they eat it all every day, so I expect we’ll have bunnies around for the dogs to chase for some time (or) until spring anyway.
Will write again on New Years,
Love, Jaye Bartlett