Friday December 25
Good morning and Merry Christmas from Silty Slough. 12 degrees this morning at sunrise 10:29. 5 hours and 12 minutes of daylight, a 3 minute gain since the 21st. I don’t know what to do with all the extra sunshine.
Our river community Christmas party was yesterday. Kari was up early cooking and sewing gifts. I had a request to make a pone of cornbread. I’ve been practicing and under the direction of the cornbread guru from north of the Ohio River in Indiana, BobbyRay Howard, I may have it dialed in. The crust was too dark for the first pone, so I ate most of it while the second try was baking. It came out pretty nice if I do say so myself. I took a picture. What do you do with a picture of a pone of cornbread? Post it on Facebook. It has to be smarter looking than Joe Biden. I posted it on the FB Appalachian Americans group since that is where my family is from and it is the capitol of cornbread. I asked for tips and comments not realizing that there would be so much interest in a picture of a pone of cornbread. So far about 3000 likes, 500 comments, a handful of request to send some, several requests to be forwarded to Santa since we are so close to the North Pole, and 3 marriage proposals. I need to see pictures to be sure they are women and a notarized affidavit that they are not Trump haters to even be considered.
The party was fine, plenty good food. I didn’t eat much because I was still full of cornbread. Someone forgot the eggnog so I rode back 4 miles to get it. It was mentioned in the planning stages that we would play games after dinner. I don’t play many games, as a matter of fact I would sooner stick needles in my eyes. Instead we had a white elephant gift exchange. Earlier it had been mentioned that even as cold as it is, I was still going to our outhouse in my underwear and slippers. They questioned if I even owned a pair of pants. Not sure how they knew other than FB because the closest neighbor is two miles away. Anyway we drew numbers and started picking, opening, swapping, and stealing presents. Several gifts changed hands multiple times. One minor tussle broke out with all 13 people outside rolling in the snow. I may be embellishing a bit. Maybe it was only 10 people. However we will check the film at 11. After the final trades, I ended up with a nice pair of insulated pants to wear to the outhouse. I think it was all set up while I went after the eggnog. It was a very enjoyable evening. All to soon it was time to pack up and head through the woods over the river and through the woods to Silty Slough. That should be a song.
I woke up this morning, no presents under the tree, oh I have to go outside and open up the well that Kari and I got each other for Christmas. Forget that it is under 4 feet of snow. I think I’ll just stay inside and run a bunch of water to appreciate our joint present. Who knows, our present next year may be a septic tank. Then I can take the insulated pants back to the gift exchange next Christmas. I won’t be needing to go outside to the outhouse anymore.
I spent most of the day answering the replies from the cornbread posting. I believe that if someone replies to your post they should be acknowledged. It’s like saying hello when someone speaks or walks into the room.
Mayor Cooper and his transition team are really settling into politics. It started out I would ask Cooper to give me a paw, he would and then I would give him a chewbie. Now since he is mayor, multiple times a day he just comes up and gives me a paw without being asked, then expects a chewbie. Teddy is very Democratic, he just hangs around and expects a chewbie handout just because Cooper got one.
The boys are out on the deck now barking at snow machines passing through the slough without paying the 2 dog biscuit toll that the new mayor came up with. Mayor Cooper has a solution. Obtain a federal grant to get transponders for the snow machines and open slough tolling. People could just put a box of chewbies on deposit. We need a storage building, an administration building, employees…..I think about $7,000,000 will do it. If we hurry we can get it included in the latest Chinese virus relief Bill. We can name it, every good government program has a name, drum roll………..SloughPass.
Time for some Christmas phone calls. Then I think the boys and I will try to come up with another money-making scam for them to operate. Surely they don’t put dogs in prison do they?
Oh in case you want to share the view go ahead, I need to get the readership up so that Teddy and Cooper can start selling adds. If each of you would share with 2 friends it could really take off. Seems like a little company in Michigan did that with soap.
I think I’ll have some cornbread and a glass of milk.
Remember keep healthy by taking your vitaminD and staying out of Walmart.
From the asylum at Silty Slough, Merry Christmas!!
Happy Birthday, dear Lord!
I’ll be in touch
Blue skies!!!
The View from the Outhouse 