Sunday first day of December nice weather. Most of December turns out to be one weather front after another passing thru. With rain and winds (but not as bad as bomb-cyclone 18NOV).
Thursday, 05DEC, Dan has Class 74 lunch gathering with Coast Guard Academy classmates at Buffalo Wild Wings, great time. Last gathering Dan was at, was 22JUN. Another great time🙃 Friday not much done; Corrie runs errands and Dan takes Fiesta for new tires and alignment. One tire had puncture and couldn’t be repaired. Tires had 40K miles, so all four replaced.
Saturday AM, 07DEC, in torrential rain Dan drives thru Tacoma to Pitre’s house in Silverdale, WA. Two reasons for this is to retrieve some things left at the house after Thanksgiving and to watch Mason’s soccer game at noon. Thankfully rain lets up during drive and fair weather for game. Then back to their house and start drive to ferry in Kingston. Luckily Dan among last few cars loaded and no waiting in line. Finally home, and more rain throughout rest of day.
Monday great mountain view of the Cascades to the east of us!
Saturday, 14DEC, Corrie continues Xmas decorating. Sunday, Corrie finishes interior Xmas decorating for house (no outside lights this year).
Wednesday, 18DEC, apparently late last night high winds and
deluge of rain passed thru. Causing
local people on the road to pull over into nearest parking lot. Corrie gets new Costco hearing aids and Dan
runs errands getting dog meds from vet.
Thursday AM (43 Anniversary) very early Dan off to neuro surgeon
about “possible” stroke discovered during Dan’s ER visit when Dan discovered “numb”
upper left arm. Neuro looked at MRI from
the ER visit and opined that it was pretty weak to make a stroke call on. Plus there are no symptoms on the right side
of body? To be safe he will get two more
MRI’s (one w/o contrast and one with) at another facility and make his
determination(s) based on those. That afternoon Dan has annual required
medicare checkup at primary care. Meanwhile
Corrie has girls’ day out with Jan Formisano; they head into Seattle to visit
National Nordic Museum. That evening our
anniversary dinner at Sushi Spott, new restaurant in Monroe.
National Nordic Museum |
Go on a Nordic Journey Across 12,000 Years
Saturday, 21DEC, off and on rain; Corrie starts cooking Xmas
dinner items for taking to Pitre’s. Sunday
more preps for Xmas at Pitre’s. Monday
AM load up truck with Xmas gifts, food, dogs, etc, and head to Pitre’s for Xmas. No ferry lines and normal time for drive🙃
Tuesday (xmas eve) last minute shopping and preparations for Xmas; great lunch/dinner of home cooked burria. Then decorating cookies for santa and building gingerbread house. Followed by few games of cribbage before bed.
Xmas day and first thing done after everyone up, is to open all the presents. Then Rebecca makes her traditional Xmas French toast for breakfast.
Rest of day spent by Rebbecca and Corrie preparing delicious dinner of turkey breast, ham, many sides. After dinner a few games cribbage.
Thursday - Great sunny day so off to Hiking Trails by Klahowya school. Boys take off on their bikes and adults slowly walk behind. After some time, it is obvious that boys are “late” returning. Of course no cell phone reception here. Turns out Mason had a flat and the boys were walking their bikes back. Then to Seabeck community center to play pickle ball with new rackets. For dinner we met Rebecca/Raymond’s friends Johnny and Sebastian for dinner at Olive Garden.
Friday AM, 27DEC, breakfast, load up truck, catch ferry and head
home to our house in typical Seattle winter rain. Monday, 30DEC take our rescued jack russell
terrier Bella to the vet for wellness check.
Sadly it is very obvious she is in the end stage of life. Physically and mentally ok, but signs of
decline evident.
Tuesday (New Years Eve day) last day of December. As is our new usual our New Years eve celebration - consists of munchie on various snackies and watching TV to bring in the new year. Followed by an early evening bedtime and hoping we can sleep thru neighborhood fireworks☹
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