I even went through a checklist before they departed.
"Do you have ham? Your bag of salad? Dressing? Deviled eggs? Stuffing? Your rolls? Oreo cake? The red onion, and boiled eggs for your salad? The bread? Any little pickles? Do you want pickles? Or olives?"
Yes, The Pony had everything. Quite sure. Off they went.
I called Friday morning. Because Thursday night, after reminding The Pony by text to send me the pictures of everybody's plate, I also received this reply:
"You forgot to give me a bread loaf!"
Well. It was right there in the cabinet, where we've kept the bread since we moved into the Mansion. And I HAD asked if the bread was among the leftovers packed. Silly me. Perhaps I should have presented that half-loaf of Hawaiian Bread on a silver platter!
Anyhoo... I love The Pony. And I will drive that bread over to Pony House. Along with the used-once bottle of Caesar Dressing that was forgotten on the door of FRIG II.
After all, I have them here. I don't need to fight the non-Black-Friday shoppers clogging the grocery stores, stocking up on bread and eggs and milk ahead of the supposed winter storm that might bring us 2 inches of snow on Friday night.
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Isn't it nice to have enough supplies that one does not need to go to the grocery store with all of the chaos and insanity that entails preparing for a "storm" - You'd think it was going to storm and snow for days on end. I've lived through the Halloween storm of 1991 with over 35" of snow over 3 days, not to mention many others when I was a teenager, young adult (drove through a storm not knowing how bad it was supposed to be - don't recommend, but again, common sense prevailed and kept me safe.) and a few since I've been married this time around and we never, ever, ever go to the grocery store before. We even make sure our vehicle(s) have plenty of gas without needing to fill it up the day of or before a storm. I hope you stay safe and the snow stays to a minimum. We've had 4" 1 day before Thanksgiving and are supposed to get a bit more today. It's been snowing since 9 this morning, not too heavy so far. The stuff a few days ago was quite wet and made everything look like it was coated in a Winter Wonderland. Quite pretty. I'm sure there is much more to come. We're predicted to be colder than average and more precipitation than average this winter. Time will tell. Ranee
Rae,
We had the Great Icepocalypse of '06 that left us powerless in a slippery landscape for weeks. The boys and I stayed at my mom's house. She still had power. Today we had snow, which is right now melting.
"You forget to give me a bread loaf!" I'm reminded of how many times I check what I am taking to the twins house and how annoyed I feel when I get there and find I've left something behind.
River,
I bought the loaf of bread for The Pony. The Pony knows where the bread is kept. The Pony was responsible for packing the leftovers. I even quizzed The Pony on the items. So The Pony's "guilt trip" won't work on me, heh, heh!
It IS annoying to forget things. As Farmer H found out on Friday morning, when he left his roll of "change" money at home. He probably had to make other deals at his SUS2.5, since he didn't have the small bills to make change.
Mamas love to feed their children!
Kathy,
You ain't a-woofin'!
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