Well Christmas turned out to be rather odd.
We spent most of the morning preparing for our guests. As we didn’t have the ovens we swung over my mothers and used a couple of hers (she has 4).
Since we had so much to do I left the two hams cooking in two ovens, one upstairs and one in the cellar while my son took her to church and I rushed home to continue the preparation.
Unfortunately my brother showed up at the house and went in and finding both ovens on assumed my mother forgot them and shut them off.
Discovering his mistake later he turned them on but the downstairs oven was on a clock so when he finally turned it back on it still turned itself off before it was done.
That wasn’t so bad since our guests were running late so we had time to finish it, however they were delayed again and again till finally we fell asleep on the sofa and recliner waiting for them. Due to new power outages here and in surrounding towns they never made it. Kind of a letdown.
So the house is pretty clean and ready for our annual open house on the 3rd, and our beer supply is now rather large, but we have several leftover hams and food for four times our number in the fridge waiting to be warmed.
The wife was and is very disappointed but I figure those guys far away from home looking for a hot meal and a cold beer were more so. And hey there are twelve days to Christmas the dining room table is still set and sooner or later those guys gotta eat, so we’ll see.
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