Once in awhile-now and again-this is us

iv’e read that home raised chickens are quite popular in california now. we actually have a neighbor, rosemary, a couple of doors down, that raises chickens. she’s brought us their beautiful, delicious pastel colored eggs before.

this time we joyfully gathered our own eggs. she would be gone a few days, so jerry got to take care of her chickens. she has provided a very nice home for them. they are happy and safe. they have a coop where they sleep and lay eggs.

they have room to run around in a pen and then can be let out to roam the yard. of course jerry did not let them out.

she has made it very easy to get to the fresh laid eggs. we used to hear one of her more vocal hens cackle as she would lay an egg. it was always a fun sound to hear. we’d say she’s laid another egg. i’ve forgotten her name now.

let’s see what’s in here.

our bounty for a few days of caring for her chickens. thanks rosemary,  we’ll watch your chickens anytime. and thank you again for yet another fun filled holiday dinner. i forgot my camera so i have no pictures. thanks for the long island iced tea dick. did you know the acronym for that is LIIT. get it? haha.

jerry is dr. doolittle of the neighborhood. he makes friends with every dog that walks by. they all know him and stop to look and see if he’s on the porch. they love it when he is in the yard. he has a lot of fun with it.  he’s taken care of several dogs and cats for years. another dog has been added to his dog sitting duties. our neighbor, elisabeth, adopted a dog recently. he was a little unruly at first but she has trained him so well he’s just a big ol’ couch potato now. he likes jerry to stay and keep him company when he feeds him.

this is elisabeth with ooffa, a breed of mastif.

and of course he’s been taking good care of midas for 11 years now.

that’s all for now. stay tuned for ????????

love, jilly

p.s.–we spent some time with martha yesterday and she’s doing much better.

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we had another nice christmas day dinner with kara.  she took us to the vue restaurant at the top of the holiday inn.

the vue is a very good name for this restaurant. i love this view of the long beach pyramid. a church steeple always makes a nice photo too. we had a very a quiet dinner with great conservation. we went back to  kara’s house and continued having a good time.

we also had a good time at our cousins lunch. we went to fuddruckers. the make your our hamburger place. you don’t cook it you just put it together after its cooked. it was also a continuation of rays 80th birthday. that was celebrated at the seal beach country club. woohoo.

jerry    ray   martha   kris    sharon   celia       be well martha

and then there is ray and jerry looking like brothers or partners in crime

it seems like i was just writing here comes 2019, and now here comes 2020.  at least i like saying “twenty twenty” better. hope we all have a happy new year. let’s all make at least one resolution and keep it. mine will be to not give ray any more mason jars!!! hahaha

i love sending christmas cards and getting christmas cards. it’s the one time of year we get personal hand written mail. and it’s still a very traditional part of christmas.

thank you all for the cards sent to us this year. i always like to display them. in times past, i used to fill up a door with all the beautiful cards.

don’t know what’s next, but stay tuned

love, jilly

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we had a nice time at tony’s house christmas eve. the freeway was empty going to his house in laguna hills at 3:00.

they were all busy in the kitchen when we got there.

tony made the apple pie in the window. that’s mashed potatoes he’s making in the bowl. everyone helped. even pete was helping by eating anything dropped.

the tree was beautiful. amy said she did most of the trimming.

there was a cozy fire. christmas music playing.

dinner was served. it was delicious thanks to all of you.

we gave emily and amy cash. yes cash. i didn’t get out to shop this year. i taped the card together to make it harder to open.

relaxing by the fire. (the blur is pete trying to get away).

and

toasting toes by the fire.

thank you for everything. it was a very nice christmas. love you guys.

too bad the rest of the family couldn’t  have been there. they were all at hannah’s in  washington.  merry christmas guys. love you and miss you.

tracy                         daryl                       jessica                javi                                   hannah

and merry christmas to all of you out there. hope you all hide a nice christmas dinner too.

stay tuned for one more christmas dinner.

love,jilly

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well, i didn’t do much blogging last year. looking back i can’t believe it. we didn’t do any traveling, but i did want to post a lot of other things. the name of the blog is ‘see the usa’ which we didn’t do, so i guess i will have to change the title this year. we will probably keep our travels in california now. there is still a lot we haven’t seen and a lot we want to see again.

so ‘california here we come’ will be the new title.

i had cataract surgery early this month which kept me from sending out christmas cards. I was constantly putting in eye drops for weeks.  I had 4 medications that I put in 4 times a day. It was hard to focus. Yesterday was the last day. 

we didn’t put up the tree or set up the polar express train this year. I did put my bottle brush trees in the living room window.

and my glass trees in the dining room window.

And more bottle brush trees in the kitchen window. I’m getting quite a collection of them. They are one my favorite things of Christmas.

I couldn’t do a post without our hats. Jose came over as we were trying to figure out how to do it. It turned out good. Thanks Jose.

We’re going to Tony’s for dinner tonight and tomorrow we will go to the Queen Mary with Kara. So we will miss Chris and Jose’s evening with his family this year.

So you all have a jolly good time this Christmas.

❤️ Love jillyandjerry ❤️

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