It's the Day After & Ramblings

   Good morning-day after Christmas,

       No snow here but it was cold and dreary looking. We enjoyed a lot of the day just watching pelicans and sea gulls fishing in the lake. I can't remember if I had shared this photo or not it was taken with my newest camera

  We are also seeing the Canada geese more now too-floating down the lake or on our shore line.

   Christmas eve afternoon our water went out-we are on a well, and everything is old and outdated here at our lake house.  I always keep gallons of distilled water for our commercial coffee  maker so we used that to flush the toilet and I heated up water to wash dishes. I only hand wash dishes anyway so that was not a big deal for me.  I have never wanted anything at all to do with dishwashers-and one needs to remember to clean it out good on the bottom which many do not-ugh. Actually there is a dishwasher here that I have never turned on, I wanted to take that out-and turn that area into more cabinet space.

    After the no water issue, Larry's Directv streaming connection totally quit working Christmas eve night. He has had trouble with it ever since we got this service but rebooting did not help this time. Larry mostly watches movies and more on streaming apps on his tv and computer now. We have found the movies offered by Directv are not worth the money. I also just recently changed our service to save a lot of money-eliminating all the movie channels and also there was way more sports than I needed. I only watch my teams not everything.   I did just add in Stars for now to finish watching the Outlander series.  We are finding loads of things to watch free on Tubi and You Tube. I could not find the Tabernacle Choir that I like to watch on Christmas Day- but found it on You Tube-amazing what is offered there now. I even found an old detective series based out of England on Tubi,  that is really good. So I called this morning early to send Larry's hook up back and Larry is happy using the apps.   I think choosing what apps you want is the future for streaming tv shows. There always so  many channels added to packages that most never watch. Being pretty much stuck indoors these days we do need a tv still. Although I never turn mine on except in the evenings, I record most sports shows to zip through the too many commercials.  I find that the nfl channel will always show the football games that are televised elsewhere for extra money. I got to watch the KC Chiefs win last night.

   Somehow I lost the remote that goes to my tv so I wouldn't be able to cut totally from a service. I love sports though and HGTV etc , so will see how this goes, going forward for me. To save money I can always go down more in package choices from Directv streaming 

  We waited til this morning to call our friend nearby to help us with the water issue. I had bought a new part last time this happened a few months ago.  It took him several hours but hopefully it is fixed now. He would not take money for his time so I gave him bags of my chocolate popcorn and included a small canned ham that I had just bought at Sav A Lot before Christmas. When I saw this canned ham it reminded me of my Mom, she was a farmgirl cook but always had this on hand for soups or when we went camping. 

  So far no snow here at all, but this week we are to get a lot of rain-so will watch for ice early mornings. 

The tamales turned out really good that I made, we had those Christmas eve. I froze the rest that were cooked, and the rest of the meat filling too,  to make up later. For Christmas I decided to make a Hanukkah  meal for Larry with corn beef. Not having water I didn't want to mess with the latkes or noodle kugel that he enjoys. I will be making Reuben sandwiches today for our main meal. I forgot to pick up the rye bread for Larry so will use the loaf of gluten free bread that I have on hand.

  I want to thank everyone that had sent me a lovely Christmas card-I really enjoyed them up on the mantel. When I last food shopped I picked up a bag of large headless frozen shrimp. We most always boil shrimp for New Years Eve, 

  Enjoy the rest of your week