My Flog for January 6 + A Bit More Than Usual

January 6 - Old Christmas Day, and the last chance for Mummers to don their mothers` old 44 bras. I wanted everyone to go mummering to Neil and Shannon`s tonight, but Howard said no. ``Not over here. I`d just as soon take a gun into a bank.`` I replied, ``Well, that`s what I figured we`d do on Saturday.``

If you haven`t seen the Mummer`s Song and video by Simani, click the link at the end of the blog. Everyone should see it at least once, it would explain some things to you mainlanders who have no clue what mummers are.

Day off? You tell me:

1. Swept and washed the kitchen floor
2. Made soup, and not just any old soup, either. First I used about 100 lbs of veggies and a dead turkey  to make soup stock, then I made the soup. Mmmmmmmm.
3. Undecorated the tree. A lumberjack or tree specialist (or maybe even a shipwright or a landscaper) will have to put it back in its box.
4. 3 loads of laundry, washed, dried and folded
5. Walked to the bakery to get fresh bread to eat with our Soup , and got caught in a big long rain shower on the way home. So much for wearing my old sneakers (as in, I`m not wearing my boots, it`s not raining and I won`t jump in any puddles, HA HA HA),  as I brought home wet jeans and wet feet to match. I don`t think there are any soles left on my old sneakers. On my way home, I saw for myself one more way Surrey is helpful to its residents -

I mean, we often see Port-a-Potties, but here we have an open-air style toilet, with lots of wipes around if you forget to bring some with you.

• Breakfast - Toast and Coffee
• Lunch - Spinach Salad - The good thing about Spinach Salad, is you burn off more calories walking to Walmart to get one than the salad itself contains. Bonus.
• Dinner - Turkey Soup -Homemade turkey soup. Stock contained: a huge turkey carcass with tons of meat on the bones, over 2 pounds of carrots, a bunch of celery (minus a stick for the rats), half a pack of mushrooms, 5 1/2 onions, and 2 bunches of green onions. Then to the stock (since I remembered to put a pot under the colander when I strained it), I added all sorts of yummy veggies (turnip, known as rutabaga here on the west coast, carrots, celery, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, frozen veggie blend (corn, more carrots, lima beans, green beans), onion soup mix, and turkey. I just hope the turkey was still good to eat. Guess we`ll find out within the next 12 hours.
• Snacks - 1/2 of a Marshmallow Square - I had to test it to make sure they were still good to eat, as the kids picked green for the colour. Therefore there is no way to tell if they are mouldy or not. Being as how mould is green sometimes. They are not mouldy, by the way, and I'm surprised we (I) don't have them all gobbled up by now. I may end up just tossing them in the garbage. We'll see. Cookie. Rice Pudding. Yum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86bcriRtW8