Alison Hodgson

Expert on the etiquette of perilous times.

Christmas Recap Pre-plague

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This isn’t really a good picture of Birdie, but I have forgotten how to load more than five pictures per post.  Something went wonkie several months ago and then I got busy with something else and then – LOOK THERE’S A CHICKEN!  That’s the punchline to a joke a friend of mine, who does NOT have ADD, likes to tell, poking fun at those who do.  All that to say, I posted this to be democratic to include Lydia and Wizzie in my five allotted photographs.  Ahem.  

This was taken at Mom’s when we celebrated Christmas with Torey’s family before they vaunted off to Canada to spread the plague afurther.  Torey was home sick.  Willa was (allegedly) recovered and was sent with Ren and David to the party.  She is just one little bundle of germs which she (not so happily) spread to all of us.  But we are ignorant of this.  None of us know that the clock on general health and the workings of our most basic processes is ticking.  Oh the humanity!

At least we went out smiling. 

Or staring crazily and scratching our noses.  Whatever.  This picture looked much funnier as a thumbnail.  Too lazy to edit.  Perhaps it’s foreshadow.  Maybe Dave has caught sight of the intestinal degradation that is about to ensue.

I always get a picture of Paul and David sitting together laughing.  Paul has put in fifteen years in the family and David has done six.  It’s good they can still smile.  The funny thing is that both of these lads really wanted to join the clan.  They are both intelligent men and clearly thrill seekers too.

Or maybe it was an experiment in eugenics.  Did both of them know that Torey’s and my genes seem to be entirely recessive?  Perhaps they thought it would be easier than cloning.  They have probably reconsidered, but who can argue that the experiment wasn’t a success?  Certainly not the little revelers pictured above.

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