Merry Christmas

     Sitting here with my coffee at 6:12 in the morn.  Showered.  Waiting on my sister.  Suddenly she wanted to do mass.  Of course my brother in law is in.  And me?  Progress is progress.  I'd rather not be the one to dismiss it.  Encourage it in fact.  Do I think it will happen?  Sadly no.  But then there are several masses to either hit or miss.  We're aiming for the 7:30 mass this morning.
     Christmas Eve went better than I thought.  Spent day running around, smoking cigars.  Sister actually started early on dinner.  Made what I would call a mock beef wellington.  What's that?
     First and foremost look it up.  It is basically fillet Mignon with what is called force meat on top; mushrooms, and sausage as I recall, could be all over; wrapped in pastry dough and baked.  Well we didn't do the force meat.  But still did the cooking step where you bake it to rare with it wrapped in bacon.  Came out quite good.  Sides were french cut string beans and mashed potatoes.  Apple pie for dessert from the same place we got the pies for Thanksgiving.  Uh oh.....Movement in the next room.  I may have to get dressed.