Shawn,..the Boy,..Bill,..and myself went to the "Rezzy Fest" tonight. We were treated to the sight of fifty-five thousand multicolored Christmas Lights,..reflecting off the mirror like waters of the lake, at the Massillon Reservoir Park.

The guys feasted on hot chocolate,..fried trail bologna sandwiches with swiss cheese on onion buns,.and french fries,,,made in buckets of hot lard,..bubbling over roaring bonfires. They topped off their fat ladened feast with doughnuts, fried in a similar situation as the french fries, and dipped, pipping hot, into powdered white sugar!!

God! Those doughnuts are too delicious even for me to think about,..let alone talk about them!! DROOOL! DROOOL!

I ate two nasty dried up salt-free and sugar-free oatmeal cookies to celebrate my new dietery restrictions and listened to Bill..moo at me about,.."Mom!! This cold is not good for your chest!! Do you want to go back into the hospital again!!! Blaaaaah! Blaaah!!! Blaaah!"

The only thing, missing and necessary for a picture book evening, were the ice skaters. The reservoir lake is not yet frozen hard enough!!

There is enough snow for several holidays....almost eight inches of the white stuff on the ground.

This snow is soft and mushy and not frozen crusty and powdery...so no "horse powered" sleighs out yet! Whooop! Whoop! I can hardly wait for the sight!!

Quote:

"Lightly flying over the snow

With a hey-ha-ha and a ho-ha-ho!

Merrily on we go!

Hey-ha-ho!..

Merrily on we go!!"

Or..:

"Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh!..

Merrily on we go..

Laughing all the way!

Bells on bob-tails ring!

Making spirits bright!

What fun it is to laugh and sing a sleighing song tonight!"


I will have to ask the sixty-five year old to ask Ralph R...,..the U.S. senator,..here from Avarre...if he still has his old bob sled down in his back barn!! A ride in a one horse powered bob sled..might help cheer the Boy up...if anything could!!

The only thing that I would ask would be to be seated as FAR from the horse as possible!!!!