1. Not having any squid on hand to make squid balls, which the soup recipe calls for, I am subbing tilapia cakes and I made them today so they would have about twenty-four hours to cool off, firm up, and be ready to quarter and plop into the fish egg drop soup I'll be making for our family's Christmas Eve dinner. We eat the food of a different country every year: this year it's China.
2. I also did some preparation for the arrival of the Deke and Patrick. I bought a new space heater for the upstairs. I made sure we were stocked with coffee, half and half, and a few other items and bought them at Yoke's. I swept the house, cleaned the bathroom, cleaned the kitchen surfaces, got all the dishes done after making the tilapia cakes and potato soup for the Deke's and Patrick's arrival, and did a couple loads of laundry, towels and sheets. To my relief, I completed my tasks before the Deke and Patrick arrived, happy that the house was reasonably clean and upstairs properly heated and the beds all ready to be slept in.
3. The Deke and Patrick stopped in Spokane at the Iron Goat for some pizza and a beer and then had a slow crawl over the dark and snowy 4th of July Pass and arrived safely in Kellogg around 6:30 or so. They got settled in. The Deke and Maggie and Charly got reacquainted. We yakked for a while and fell back into some familiar rhythms and conversations before calling it a night.
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