Yes, amigos, today was a record-breaker. So much news, so few minutes to type until the shows are on. More on the records in a minute.
But first, I want to let you know that we did NOT make it to community night for Pumpkin Fest :( We were all too tired and the kids had been sick all week. We opted for TV and reading and early bed. We DID, in fact, go to the Pumpkin Fest proper on Saturday and had a great time. More on that in the next “Our New England Life, 2nd issue, part II”
So…Today started out with rain mixed with snow…the second snowstorm in New England this year and it’s not even Halloween yet. True, here in Westmoreland the snow didn’t accumulate even a smidge, but the damp, the wind and the cold cancelled my plans to finish the roof of my shed/woodworking shop. It had the makings of taking my good weekend and stomping the life right out of it. Its possible that I might even have become crabby. Only so many times you can check the weather radar before resigning to the fact that today will SUCK, because won’t get to do what I wanted to and had planned to do, all week.
Instead of letting it take me, I decided to go with the flow. I made a tasty frittata for breakfast, along with bagels and some habanero/pineapple jelly we bought at the fiesta yesterday. Qué Rico! Good thing number one (1). After breakfast, I decided to go to Keene and pick up some supplies for supper and our recently formed Sunday afternoon tradition of Patriots football and soup/stew family dinner in the living room, followed by desert and Sunday night shows.
Grace and I went to Keene. We bought our supplies and then hit a couple stores. I lost my leather Ivy cap sometime, somewhere, last week, and so we were looking for for a replacement, looking for the cost of a caphalon 12” omelet pan, for a white chefs hat and chef coat like Leo’s or Ashley's, for white table cloth for the breakfast table y de verdad, for any thing…mostly, just for fun, for spending time with my girl, Grace. We didn’t find one thing we were looking for (except for the fun). We had a great time together! Good thing number two (2)!
When we got home I started our Sunday Dinner. This week I made a delicious pozole, and Tracy made a fantastic apple pie from some apples we picked at Alyson’s. Tasty treats for Football…good thing number three (3).
We all spent the next hour or so doing our own thing, I read a little more of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, studied a little about the imperfect tense in Spanish and spent some quality time with Tracy ;) Good things four through seven (4-7) (quality time gets 2 points he he)
Four O’clock arrived and we descended to the living room for Football, a game of New and Improved Risk , coffee, cocoa and a snack plate of cotija and pepper jack cheeses, chorizo, fruit salad, apple tart and donuts…”Donuts?” you say…I know….I was hungry when we went shopping.
The record day started to build to heights hitherto unknown in this part of Westmoreland. The Patriots played this afternoon in an early autumn Nor'easter, the earliest blizzard in New England that I can remember, and it snowed really hard in Foxboro, Massachusetts all day. The game was a complete blow-out against the Titans…59-0. Not the best game for excitement, but fun nevertheless. Good thing number eight (8).
But THE BIGGEST, THE GRANDEST, THE MOST RECORDBREAKING THING OF ALL…I totally dominated and squashed Tracy and Jeremiah in Risk. “That is big?” you’re wondering? True…beating a 12 year old boy…not a feat to be proud of…BUT, whooping Tracy's ass…MAN!!!! WHAT A SPANKING!! Better than Sex (well, not really, but at least I can brag about Risk. he he) In one turn I took out almost all of ASIA and captured the third objective in order to be crowned world dominator and so I won the game.
Tracy always, always wins…always! I play for fun, but I know that I’m probably going to lose…its been that way since we met 20 years ago. Of course then, Risk involved a lot of tequila, some beer and a bowl or bong hit, and my brother, my roommates and Tracy all designed to remove me from the game first, before I could be a threat (at least in their heads, since I never win)…but even long after those days were gone, she has always won…with questions like, “What is a continent?”, “Can I use more than one dice,” “I cant decide where to place my 15 new armies, can you help me?”… (all ploys to catch the uninitiated unaware and take them before they know they've been slaughtered by a master) Yet tonight…I gave her the smack down she had coming…I revel because now that she knows the rules to New and Improved Risk…I’ll never win again…but tonight…I reign supreme!! Good thing number nine (9)
We ate the pozole and afterwards the pie and the glow was complete. The kids are off to bed and now we are contemplating re-watching a movie that I slept though last night (too tired after a long day…la pelicula…Bajo la Sal), or a show. I doesn’t matter. Maybe a haircut thrown in the mix, It’s all good.
And by the way…I WON Risk! ha ha ha ha
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