The Last of 2017....

Housing for the Muscovy Ducks

Soon the 8th of December we and our Kats wandered off to South Carolina to visit the Peelers.  The flights were flights, domestic and suitably boring.  No food, of course, but lots of people, water and orange juice.  Plane landed in DC at Dulles, then after a plane change we were off to Columbia, SC. via a rj-145 3 seat-per-row 2+1 configuration.  No room at all and we had the cats and only a carry-on bag (thankfully smart!) Short flight, a little over an hour.  

ERJ-145

Andy and Ash picked us up as we left the concourse and we were off to our southern home shortly thereafter.  The time there was great, we laughed a lot, went grocery shopping a lot, visited a few historic sites, drove both Andy's electric car and Ash's little land-rocket too.  I did most of the cooking with Andy and Ash filling in when I was out-of-service.  Andy baked his remarkable sourdough breads too which was a real treat!  He made a particularly interesting loaf of sourdough rye, excellent by any measure! 
  

Time flew by until just before Kelly's birthday, she caught "a cold" (really the current flu) and shortly thereafter, surprise!  I had it too, then Ashley...Andy was most resistant up til then.  We were confined to bed much of the time but still took day trips and shopping excursions as necessary, a sniffing all the way!  

We had a great time though, played with their Kats and our Kats (separated for both group's safety by the kitchen door.  Many evil and curious stares between the groups as we passed in and out of the kitchen.  

We stopped imbibing sometime in the second week of our flu experience and have been "dry" since, about a month now.  How long will these two Irish blooded folks last?  It's a test, we'll see.

We flew home on the 5th of January, both of us sick as hell and stuffed ourselves into the RJ-145 again for a flight to Houston, a change of planes to a real airplane (737-900) then off we flew to Sacramento.  We were both basket cases by the time we arrived home by Veteran's Cab, a really professional outfit! 5 STARS!

Now it's the 26th and we are still sleeping in and sniffing, coughing and have diarrhea too boot!  No fun at all!   

A Sunday in Suisun City

Sky's cloudy, threatening rain, more likely drizzle.  Up to make breakfast of eggs, pigtail sausages by Farmer John (smoked links raw), some crispy potatoes made by using a potato peeler to peel an entire potato, separate them into piles and fry them in a skillet til crisp on both sides.  A nice and filling breakfast.

Then deal with each of the 4 computers to get the latest Win 10 updates installed.  That done, start baking bread for my flock of 4.  I love the new oven, 30" is wonderfully roomy.  I can bake 8 loaves at once.  It's a GE and does NOT have the fan for convection so the oven is deeper by some 4 inches too.  All in all this was a fortuitous disaster.