Boxing Day and After

 Christmas was enjoyable if uneventful--at least until late on Boxing Day.

Our younger son arrived in the early evening of the 23rd and we had dinner at home. Christmas Eve morning, he and Jill and I had breakfast at a lovely little cafe nearby. (If you're local to Ridley Township and/or Ridley Park, I heartily recommend The Brickhaus on East Hinckley Ave.) Just before noon, elder son and daughter-in-law arrived and we opened presents and stockings and then had a late lunch/early dinner at Iron Hill in Media. On our return, elder son and daughter-in-law left to journey to her parents in Maryland. (We'll see them again on Tuesday on their return trip to New England.)

So, Christmas Day was quiet three-person affair. Jill baked soda bread for breakfast and roasted a turkey breast, and tried out a recipe for a pumpkin cobbler. (Not being a fan of anything pumpkin, I have no personal report on that, but she and son suggest the spicing needs a tweak.) Son watched a good deal of football.

Sunday morning, Boxing Day, we generally slept late, I made our usual Sunday breakfast of rolls and bacon and then our son began packing for his return to New York around noon. Here's where things got eventful. About dinner time, we discovered the toilet was clogged. I worked on it most of the evening and got it to a point where it was usable, if we were careful. I called our usual emergency plumber, but they had no one available until this morning. I checked on it a couple of times overnight, to make sure it wasn't getting worse. The plumber arrived about 8:20 and by 8:45 everything was back to normal.

I'm just back from a quick grocery run and trying to catch up with on-line stuff.