My thirteen year old cousin talks about setting cellphones on rumble rather than on vibrate. He also says that cats vibrate rather than purr.
We've been enjoying the past couple days with my grandparents and aunt, uncle and cousins here at our house, carrying on with our Christmas celebration. They arrived from Delaware Monday afternoon, and we opened gifts before and after dinner. Each year Grandma has a secret theme gift, and this year her theme was our Irish ancestory: her father was Irish, which makes me 1/8th Irish. Anyhow, she had a coded message, and we had to break the code correctly or we wouldn't receive our gifts. Fortunately, it was a simple letter subsititution, so it didn't take too long to crack. I received a book about celtic music, reviewing the recording and performing history of the genre since the 1960s to the present, and a book of tunes for the tin whistle.
Yesterday the girls (my mom, sister, grandma, aunt, and cousins) went out yarn shopping, antique shopping, and to the English Rose Tearoom, while dad and grandpa drove around to some civil war historic sites on missionary ridge, and I went with my brother, cousin, and uncle for a hike along the Bluff Trail, starting from Covenant. We found the coolest icicles on the side of the rock faces; water would be running down the rock faces behind the ice sheets, and where there were overhangs the icicles looked like fangs. On our return trip we stopped by a particularly thick bunch of icicles and started throwing rocks at them to break the top of the bunch off. Our uncle even got in on the action, and I took a few photos which should be fun pictures once they're developed. Then we met up with Dad and grandpa for pizza at Mr. T's--fun times.
After a beef stew dinner last night we were hanging around, enjoying being together; the girls were knitting and watching a movie, folks were talking, reading; and in a game of Finger Baseball Mullica Hill (my uncle) beat Ringgold (me) with two runs in the tenth inning after a no-score game the first nine innings.
Posted by swanson at december 29, 2004 1:31 EM